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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手中一人 (QLMO), four-corner 52013, composition)

  1. a load carried on the shoulders
  2. to carry

References

  • KangXi: page 430, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12055
  • Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1872, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6311

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
*l̥ʰews
*l'ew
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
*l'ewʔ
*lew
*lew
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
*lew
*lew
*lews
*lews
*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l'eːwʔ
*l'eːwʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (6) (6) (7)
Final () (93) (89) (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () IV I IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛw/ /tʰaw/ /dɛwX/
Li
Rong
/tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Wang
Li
/tʰieu/ /tʰɑu/ /dieuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰieu/ /tʰɑu/ /dʱieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiāo tāo diào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiāo tiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ thew › ‹ dewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˤew/ /*lˤewʔ/
English scratch, stir up provoke

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 16842 16871 16892
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰaːw/ /*l̥ʰeːw/ /*l'eːwʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. challenge
  2. contend for
  3. make love to

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(do, jo) (hangeul , , revised do, jo, McCune-Reischauer to, cho, Yale to, co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(vẹo, khêu, khều, khiêu, khểu, treo, trẹo)

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