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弔

弔

See also: 弓, 弖, and 吊

Translingual

Han character

弔 (radical 57 弓+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓中 (NL) or X弓中 (XNL), four-corner 1752₇)

condole, mourn, pity
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References

KangXi: page 356, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9698

Dae Jaweon: page 671, character 27

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 989, character 1

Unihan data for U+5F14

Chinese

simp. and trad.		弔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 弔
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (弔) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
盄	*tjiw
弔	tiːwɢs, tiːwɢ
伄	*tiːwɢs

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): diào (diao⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): diu³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: diào
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠˋ
  - Wade-Giles: tiao⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diaw
  - IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: diu³
  - Yale: diu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: diu³
  - IPA ^(key): /tiːu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /teu^H/, /tek̚/▼

Rime
Character	弔	弔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	多嘯切	都歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/teu^H/	/tek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/teu^H/	/tek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/teu^H/	/tɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛw^H/	/tɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/teu^H/	/tek̚/
Wang Li	/tieu^H/	/tiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tieu^H/	/tiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diào	di

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*tˤ[i]wk/, /*tˤ[e]wk-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*tiːwɢs/, /*tiːwɢ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	弔	弔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diào	diào
Middle Chinese	‹ tek ›	‹ tew^H ›
Old Chinese	/*tˤ[i]wk/	/*tˤ[e]wk-s/
English	arrive	grieved; condole
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	弔	弔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2361	2363
Phonetic component	弔	弔
Rime group	奧	覺
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	弔	的
Old Chinese	/*tiːwɢs/	/*tiːwɢ/

Definitions

弔

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Japanese

Kanji

弔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

condolences

Readings

On: ちょう (chō), てき (teki)

Kun: とむらう (tomurau), つる (tsuru)

Korean

Hanja

弔 • ‎(jo, jeok) (hangeul 조, 적, revised jo, jeok, McCune-Reischauer cho, chŏk, Yale co, cek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: điếu

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