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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜金大 (VFYCK), four-corner 20948)

  1. twist, wring
  2. intertwine
  3. winch

References

  • KangXi: page 922, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27421
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3397, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7D5E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠauX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚauX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kauX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨwX/
Li
Rong
/kauX/
Wang
Li
/kauX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kauX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ kæwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*k-rˤ[i]wʔ/ (dialect: *k.rˤ- > *kˤr-)
English twist; strangle

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. 6306
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːwʔ/

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation


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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(gyo) (hangeul , revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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