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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsaːwʔ
*ʔslaːwʔ
*ʔsaːwʔ
*ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
*ʔsaːws
*ʔsaːws
*sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
*sʰaːw, *sʰaw
*sʰaːwʔ
*sʰaːws
*zaːw, *sʰaw
*saːw, *saːws
*saːw
*saːwʔ, *saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
*soːwʔ, *srow

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16577 16586
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*saːw/ /*saːws/
Notes

Definitions

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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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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