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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taːw
*taːw
*taːw
*taːw
*taːw, *moːɡ
*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
*taːwʔ, *taːws
*taːws
*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
*deːw
*rteːw, *teːw
*hreːw
*sdew, *tjewʔ
*tʰew
*tʰew, *tʰjew
*tʰew
*dews, *djews
*tjew
*tjew
*tjew
*tjewʔ
*tjews
*tjews
*tjews
*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
*tʰjewʔ
*djew
*djew, *djewʔ
*djew, *lew
*djew
*djew
*djewʔ
*djewʔ
*djewʔ
*djews
*djews
*djews
*teːw
*teːw, *deːw
*teːw
*teːw
*deːw
*deːw
*deːw
*deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjew) : semantic  (sun) + phonetic  (OC *dews, *djews).

Han character

(radical 72 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸竹口 (ASHR), four-corner 67062, composition)

  1. bright, luminous
  2. illustrious

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 493, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13855
  • Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1504, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+662D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciaw/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyew ›
Old
Chinese
/*taw/
English bright

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. 2127
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjew/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. shining

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chiu, chiêu)

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