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縐

縐

See also: 绉

Translingual

Han character

縐 (radical 120 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火心山山 (VFPUU), four-corner 2792₇)

crepe, crape, wrinkles, creases

References

KangXi: page 933, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27747

Dae Jaweon: page 1372, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3438, character 4

Unihan data for U+7E10

Chinese

trad.		縐
simp.		绉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 縐
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (芻) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
煼	*sʰroːʔ
謅	sʰroːʔ, ʔsru, *sʰru
縐	sʰroːs, ʔsrus
鄒	*ʔsru
騶	*ʔsru
搊	ʔsruʔ, sʰru, *ʔsro
皺	*ʔsrus
篘	*sʰru
㑳	zrus, ʔsro, *rnuːb
趍	sʰlo, l'al
趨	*sʰlo
芻	*sʰro
犓	*sʰro
雛	*zro
鶵	*zro
媰	*zro
齺	*zroːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): zhòu (zhou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
  - Wade-Giles: chou⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zau³
  - Yale: jau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzau³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ʃʰˠau^H/, /t͡ʃɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	縐	縐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	初 (19)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	初敎切	側救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠau^H/	/t͡ʃɨu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚau^H/	/ʈ͡ʂiu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰau^H/	/t͡ʃiəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨw^H/	/ʈ͡ʂuw^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰau^H/	/t͡ʃiu^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰau^H/	/t͡ʃĭəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰau^H/	/ʈ͡ʂi̯ə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chào	zhòu

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ˤro-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰroːs/, /*ʔsrus/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	縐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhòu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrjuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˤro-s/
English	wrinkles
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	縐	縐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1592	1598
Phonetic component	芻	芻
Rime group	侯	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	抄	皺
Old Chinese	/*sʰroːs/	/*ʔsrus/

Definitions

縐

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Compounds

抽縐／抽绉
文縐縐／文绉绉 (wénzhòuzhòu)
湖縐／湖绉

縐布／绉布
縐紗／绉纱 (zhòushā)

縐紬／绉䌷
縐絺／绉𫄨

Japanese

Kanji

縐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: しゅう (shū), しゅ (shu), す (su), しゅく (shuku)

Kun: ちじみ (chijimi)

Korean

Hanja

縐 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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