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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹中X (HLX), four-corner 88227, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 900, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26560
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3023, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7C2B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sɯːw
*sɯːw
*sɯːw
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːw
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯwɢs
*sɯwɢs
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seu/
Pan
Wuyun
/seu/
Shao
Rongfen
/seu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛw/
Li
Rong
/seu/
Wang
Li
/sieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sew ›
Old
Chinese
/*sˤiw/
English pan-pipe

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. 12113
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːw/

Noun

  1. xiao, a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music (also called 洞簫洞箫 (dòngxiāo))
  2. a musical instrument like pan-pipes (also called 排簫排箫 (páixiāo))

Proper noun

  1. A surname: Xiao

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
しょう
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (sew, xiao (Chinese flute)).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana しょう, romaji shō, historical hiragana せう)

  1. xiao (Chinese flute)

Usage notes

Synonymous with the longer phrase 簫の笛 (shō no fue, literally shō flute).[1] However, given the rarity of this kanji in writing, and the large number of possible single-kanji terms pronounced as shō in Japanese, this longer term that specifies (flute) is used to clarify and disambiguate.

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu, tiu)

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