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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 145 +3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手一女 (QMV), four-corner 50732, composition𧘇)

References

  • KangXi: page 1111, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34105
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1576, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 21, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8868

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*prawʔ
*prawʔ, *praws
*praws

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/piawX/
Li
Rong
/piɛuX/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
biǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*p(r)awʔ/
English exterior

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 # 1/1
No. 813
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*prawʔ/

Definitions

  1. surface; outside; exterior
  2. external; outside; superficial
  3. table; form; list
  4. to show; to express; to display

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified and variant traditional form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana おもて, romaji omote)

  1. surface; face (visible side of an object)
  2. front (of a building), obverse side of a coin ("heads")
  3. cover attached to a surface
  4. outer clothing;
  5. facade; appearance; outside; exterior
  6. public; official
  7. main entrance of a house; front door
  8. outside a house; outdoors; street in front of a house
  9. (baseball) first half, top (of an inning)
  10. Abbreviation of 表千家 (omotesenke). Foundation of Fushin-an
  11. front room; living room
  12. (computing) foreground
Antonyms

Suffix

(hiragana おもて, romaji -omote)

Usage notes

Attached to a noun to indicate direction, location, etc.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • (verb:) 表す (ひょうす, hyōsu)

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ひょう, romaji hyō)

  1. table, chart, list
     (ひょう)のセルhyō no serutable cell
  2. documents presented to a monarch from a vassal

Verb

する (hiragana ひょうする, romaji hyō suru)

  1. to express, to show
Conjugation

References

  1. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(pyo) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

  1. Hanja form? of , “table, diagram, or graph”.

Vietnamese

Han character

(biểu, vẹo, vếu, bẻo, bẹo)

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