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蕭

蕭

See also: 萧

Translingual

Han character

蕭 (radical 140 艸+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿中X (TLX), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹肅)

  1. common Artemisia
  2. sighing of wind
  3. mournful
  4. dejected
  5. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1059, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32012
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1522, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3308, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+856D

Chinese

trad. 蕭
simp. 萧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
簫 *sɯːw
蕭 *sɯːw
瀟 *sɯːw
潚 *sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
彇 *sɯːw
蟰 *sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
橚 *sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
嘯 *sɯːwɢs
歗 *sɯːwɢs
熽 *sɯːwɢs
繡 *sɯwɢs
鏽 *sɯwɢs
肅 *sɯwɢ
鷫 *sɯwɢ
驌 *sɯwɢ
鱐 *sɯwɢ
璛 *sɯwɢ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 蕭
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu²¹/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /siɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /siau²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiau²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /siɔo³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /siæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /siɔ³¹/
Tunxi /siu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /siau³³/
Xiangtan /siaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /siau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /seu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /siu⁵³/
Nanning /ɬiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /siu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siau⁵⁵/
/sio⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siau²³/
/tiau²³/
Rime
Character 蕭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 蘇彫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /seu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /seu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /seu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛw/
Li
Rong		 /seu/
Wang
Li		 /sieu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蕭 蕭
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiāo xiāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sew › ‹ sew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sˤiw/ /*sˤiw/
English Artemisia 蕭蕭 neighing of horses

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 蕭
Reading # 1/1
No. 12114
Phonetic
component		 肅
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 蕭
Old
Chinese		 /*sɯːw/

Definitions

蕭

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Compounds

Usage notes

The character 肖 (Xiāo) is often used in the simplified script instead of 萧, especially as a surname and in transliterating foreign names.

Japanese

Kanji

蕭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蕭 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕭 (tiêu)

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