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奏

奏

See also: 秦, 奉, and 泰

Translingual

Han character

奏 (radical 37 大+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹大 (QKHK), four-corner 50430, composition ⿱𡗗天)

References

  • KangXi: page 251, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5915
  • Dae Jaweon: page 512, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 537, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+594F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 奏

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 奏
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sou⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sou⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sou⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sou²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sou³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sou⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡səu¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sou¹³/
Ürümqi /tɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡səu³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡səu¹³/
Guiyang /t͡səu²¹³/
Kunming /t͡səu²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡səɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡səu³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡səu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sɤ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sɤ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sau⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡so³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡siu⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡səu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡səɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɛu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡seu⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡seu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɐu³³/
Nanning /t͡sɐu³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sɐu³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sɔ²¹/
/t͡sau²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɑu²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡se³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zau²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sɔu³⁵/
Rime
Character 奏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 則候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡səuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡səuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡səuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡səwH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡səuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tsˤo(ʔ)-s/
English bring forward; perform (music)

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 奏
Reading # 1/1
No. 17908
Phonetic
component		 奏
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 奏
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsoːs/

Definitions

奏

  1. to play (music)
  2. memorialize an emperor
  3. report

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

奏

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

奏 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奏 (tấu, táu, tâu, thần)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 奏
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (奏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
奏 *ʔsoːs
凑 *sʰoːs
腠 *sʰoːs
輳 *sʰoːs
楱 *sʰoːs, *zoːs
湊 *sʰoːs

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