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杪

杪

Translingual

Han character

杪 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木火竹 (DFH), four-corner 49920, composition ⿰木少)

References

  • KangXi: page 513, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1168, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+676A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 杪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觘 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬 *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒 *sʰroːʔ
吵 *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖 *sm̥ʰreːws
仯 *sm̥ʰreːws
眇 *mewʔ
渺 *mewʔ
杪 *mewʔ
秒 *mewʔ
篎 *mewʔ, *mews
妙 *mews
玅 *mews
釥 *sm̥ʰewʔ
小 *smewʔ
少 *hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨 *m̥ʰjewʔ
尠 *senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 杪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡沼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /miawX/
Li
Rong		 /miɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 杪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]ewʔ/
English the utmost end

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 杪
Reading # 1/1
No. 13697
Phonetic
component		 小
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 眇
Old
Chinese		 /*mewʔ/

Definitions

杪

  1. tip of twig, top of tree
  2. twig

Japanese

Kanji

杪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

杪 ‎(hiragana こずえ, romaji kozue)

  1. treetop

Korean

Hanja

杪 • ‎(cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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