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Translingual

Han character

(radical 173 +7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月火月 (MBFB), four-corner 10227)

  1. sky
  2. clouds, mist
  3. night

References

  • KangXi: page 1374, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42290
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4064, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9704

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *slewɢs
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sreːws
*sreːws
*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
*sreːws
*sreːws
*sʰewʔ
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*zews
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*slew
*sew
*slew, *slews
*slewɢs
*l'ewʔ
*seːw, *sleːw
*seːw
*slewɢ
*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siaw/
Li
Rong
/siɛu/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ew/
English sleet

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. 13741
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sew/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 丹霄
  • 九重霄
  • 九霄
  • 九霄雲外九霄云外
  • 凌霄
  • 凌霄殿
  • 凌霄花
  • 氣凌霄漢气凌霄汉
  • 氣沖霄漢气冲霄汉
  • 氣踰霄漢气踰霄汉
  • 沖霄冲霄
  • 沖霄漢外冲霄汉外
  • 目視雲霄目视云霄
  • 碧霄
  • 義氣干霄义气干霄
  • 聲徹雲霄声彻云霄
  • 聳壑昂霄耸壑昂霄
  • 迥隔霄壤
  • 重霄
  • 陵霄
  • 雲霄云霄 (yúnxiāo)
  • 雲霄飛車云霄飞车 (yúnxiāofēichē)
  • 霄壤
  • 霄壤之別霄壤之别
  • 霄壤之殊
  • 霄漢霄汉 (xiāohàn)
  • 靈霄寶殿灵霄宝殿
  • 青霄
  • 響徹雲霄响彻云霄
  • 高入雲霄高入云霄
  • 魄散九霄

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu)

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