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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 32 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土土土山 (GGGU), four-corner 40211, composition)

  1. a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 234, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5272
  • Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 459, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+582F

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːws, *ŋjew
*ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
*ŋ̥ʰreːw
*hŋreːw
*hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
*hŋjew, *hŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ʔŋew
*ŋjew
*ŋjew
*ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
*ŋjewʔ
*njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
*ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
*ŋ̥ʰew
*ɡew, *ɡews
*ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
*ŋkeːw
*kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːws
*hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːwʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iau³⁵/
Harbin /iau²⁴/
Tianjin /iɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /iɔ⁴²/
Qingdao /iɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iau⁴²/
Xi'an /iau²⁴/
Xining /iɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /iɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /iɔ⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʐɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /iau²¹³/
Chengdu /iau³¹/
Guiyang /iao²¹/
Kunming /iɔ³¹/
Nanjing /iɔo²⁴/
Hefei /iɔ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iau¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /iɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦiɔ²³/
/ȵiɔ²³/
Suzhou /ɦiæ¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵiɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵa³¹/
Hui Shexian /niɔ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /io⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /iau¹³/
Xiangtan /iaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ŋiau¹¹/
Taoyuan /ŋieu²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jiu²¹/
Nanning /jiu²¹/
Hong Kong /jiu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /giau³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiãu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋeu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋeu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋeu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɛw/
Li
Rong
/ŋeu/
Wang
Li
/ŋieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yáo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ]ˤew/
English high

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14689
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋeːw/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Korean

Hanja

(yo) (hangeul , revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nghiêu, nghẻo, nghễu, nhao, nhiều)

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