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臊

臊

Translingual

Han character

臊 (radical 130 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月口口木 (BRRD), four-corner 76294)

  1. rank
  2. rancid
  3. frowzy, fetid
  4. bashful

References

  • KangXi: page 996, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29955
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2116, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+81CA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 臊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臊
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (喿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藻 *ʔsaːwʔ
澡 *ʔslaːwʔ
璪 *ʔsaːwʔ
繰 *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁 *ʔsaːws
趮 *ʔsaːws
操 *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧 *sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆 *sʰaːwʔ
鄵 *sʰaːws
鐰 *zaːw, *sʰaw
臊 *saːw, *saːws
鱢 *saːw
燥 *saːwʔ, *saːws
噪 *saːws
髞 *saːws
喿 *saːws
譟 *saːws
劋 *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾 *soːwʔ, *srow

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 臊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇遭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /saw/
Li
Rong		 /sɑu/
Wang
Li		 /sɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ saw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m.s]ˤaw/
English fat of swine or dog

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 臊 臊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16577 16586
Phonetic
component		 喿 喿
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 騷 喿
Old
Chinese		 /*saːw/ /*saːws/
Notes 後通作騷 手冊所列新分化字

Definitions

臊

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Compounds

  • 不怕臊
  • 不臊
  • 害臊 (hàisào)
  • 怕臊
  • 扯臊
  • 放屁辣臊
  • 沒羞沒臊／没羞没臊
  • 狐臊 (húsāo)
  • 瞎扯臊
  • 老臊胡
  • 腥臊
  • 腥臊味
  • 臊味
  • 臊子
  • 臊根
  • 臊氣／臊气
  • 臊皮
  • 臊羯奴
  • 臊聲／臊声
  • 臭短臊長／臭短臊长

References

Japanese

Kanji

臊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

臊 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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