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敖

敖

Translingual

Han character

敖 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土尸人大 (GSOK) or 手尸人大 (QSOK), four-corner 48240, composition ⿰⿱士方攵)

  1. ramble, play about
  2. leisurely

Derived characters

Synonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 471, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13226
  • Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1456, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+6556

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 敖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敖
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (敖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
熬 *ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖 *ŋaːw
嗷 *ŋaːw
螯 *ŋaːw
聱 *ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲 *ŋaːw
遨 *ŋaːw
獒 *ŋaːw
滶 *ŋaːw
蔜 *ŋaːw
鷔 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇 *ŋaːw
謷 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅 *ŋaːw
嗸 *ŋaːw
摮 *ŋaːw
嫯 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲 *ŋaːws
磝 *ŋraːw

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 出 + 放 – the action 攵/攴 of a person 方 with feathers 出 in their headdress – a proud act. .

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 敖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaw/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑu/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 áo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敖 敖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 áo áo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngaw › ‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ˤaw/ /*ŋˤaw/
English tall saunter about

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 敖
Reading # 1/1
No. 39
Phonetic
component		 敖
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 敖
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːw/

Definitions

敖

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Compounds

  • 孫叔敖／孙叔敖
  • 打敖
  • 敖不可長／敖不可长
  • 敖包 (áobāo)
  • 敖得薩／敖得萨
  • 敖敖
  • 敖曹
  • 敖盪／敖荡
  • 敖遊／敖游
  • 桀敖不馴／桀敖不驯
  • 笑敖
  • 若敖鬼餒／若敖鬼馁
  • 謔浪笑敖／谑浪笑敖
  • 讙敖

References

Japanese

Kanji

敖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 敖敖
  • 敖惰
  • 敖盪
  • 敖民
  • 敖遊

Korean

Hanja

敖 • ‎(o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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