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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月土口 (VFBGR), four-corner 27920)

  1. silk cloth, satin damask

References

  • KangXi: page 926, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27546
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3417, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7DA2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːw, *dɯw, *do
*tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
*tuːwʔ
*tʰuːw, *dɯw
*tʰuːw, *duːw
*duːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
調 *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
*dɯːw
*tʰɯw
*tʰɯw, *tjɯw
*dɯw
*dɯw, *tjɯws
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯwʔ
*tʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰou³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰou⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰəu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰəu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰəu²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰəu³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰəɯ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəu¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰəu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zɤ²³/
Suzhou /zɤ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zei²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂəu¹³/
Xiangtan /ɖ͡ʐəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɨu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰu¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiu³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiu³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tiu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdiu³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (6) (11)
Final () (89) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰɑu/ /ɖɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰɑu/ /ɖiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɑu/ /ȡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰaw/ /ɖuw/
Li
Rong
/tʰɑu/ /ȡiu/
Wang
Li
/tʰɑu/ /ȡĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑu/ /ȡʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tāo chóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]riw/
English bind round

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 17508 17527
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰuːw/ /*dɯw/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 印度綢印度绸
  • 塔手綢塔手绸
  • 寧綢宁绸
  • 府綢府绸
  • 彩綢彩绸
  • 拷綢拷绸
  • 未雨綢繆未雨绸缪 (wèi yǔ chóumóu)
  • 綢紋紙绸纹纸
  • 綢緞绸缎
  • 綢繆绸缪 (chóumóu)
  • 綾羅綢緞绫罗绸缎
  • 綿綢绵绸
  • 繭綢茧绸 (jiǎnchóu)
  • 莨綢莨绸

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ju, jo, do) (hangeul , , , revised ju, jo, do, McCune-Reischauer chu, cho, to, Yale cwu, co, to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trù, điều)