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枵
枵
Translingual
Han character
枵 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木口一尸 (DRMS), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木号)
References
- KangXi: page 517, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14585
- Dae Jaweon: page 905, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1182, character 2
- Unihan data for U+67B5
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
枵 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (号) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 饕 | *l̥ʰaːw |
| 號 | *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws |
| 号 | *ɦlaːws |
| 枵 | *hraw |
| 呺 | *hraw |
| 鴞 | *ɦraw |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hraw) : semantic 木 + phonetic 号 (OC *ɦlaːws).
Etymology
Substrate word, possibly from a Tai-Kadai language. Compare Thai หิว (hǐu, “hungry”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hiu1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yâu
- Min Dong (BUC): ĕu / hiĕu
- Min Nan (POJ): hiau / iau
- Wu (Wiktionary): xiau (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
- Wade-Giles: hsiao1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hiu1
- Yale: hīu
- Cantonese Pinyin: hiu1
- IPA (key): /hiːu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâu
- Hakka Romanization System: iau´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yau1
- IPA: /i̯au̯²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâu
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)iau´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yau1
- IPA: /(j)i̯au̯²⁴/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ĕu / hiĕu
- IPA (key): /ɛu⁵⁵/, /hieu⁵⁵/
- Note: ĕu - vernacular (“hungry”); hiĕu - literary.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiau
- Tâi-lô: hiau
- Phofsit Daibuun: hiaw
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hiaʊ³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiaʊ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iau
- Tâi-lô: iau
- Phofsit Daibuun: iaw
- IPA (Xiamen): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʊ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- Note: hiau - literary; iau - vernacular.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xiau (T1)
- IPA (key): /ɕiɔ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 枵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (92) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 許嬌切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hˠiᴇu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hᵚiɛu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xiæu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/hiaw/ |
| Li Rong |
/xjɛu/ |
| Wang Li |
/xĭɛu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xi̯ɛu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiāo |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 枵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4919 |
| Phonetic component |
号 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
嚻 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hraw/ |
Definitions
枵
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 餓 (“hungry”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 飢、餓 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 餓、飢餓 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 餓 |
| Taiwan | 餓 | |
| Tianjin | 餓 | |
| Harbin | 餓 | |
| Shenyang | 餓 | |
| Jinan | 餓 | |
| Xi'an | 飢、餓 | |
| Wuhan | 餓 | |
| Chengdu | 餓 | |
| Yangzhou | 餓 | |
| Hefei | 餓 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 肚餓 |
| Hong Kong | 肚餓 | |
| Taishan | 肚飢 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 餓 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 肚飢、餓 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 枵 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 飢 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 枵 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 枵 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 枵 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 枵 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 餓 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 空、枵 dated |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 枵 |
| Xiamen | 枵 | |
| Zhangzhou | 枵 | |
| Taipei | 枵 | |
| Kaohsiung | 枵 | |
| Chaozhou | 肚困 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 餓 |
| Wenzhou | 餓 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 餓、䐬 |
| Shuangfeng | 肚䐬、餓 intensified | |
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: hèo
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