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Translingual

Han character

(radical 182 +11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 一火竹弓戈 (MFHNI), four-corner 17910)

  1. whirlwind, cyclone
  2. floating

References

  • KangXi: page 1414, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43946
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1936, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4490, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+98C4

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pew, *pewʔ
*pew, *pʰew
*pew
*pew
*pew
*pew
*prew, *pʰewʔ, *bewʔ, *spewʔ
*pewʔ
*pʰew
*pʰew, *bew
*pʰew, *pʰews
*pʰew, *bew
*pʰew, *pʰewʔ
*pʰew, *pʰews
*pʰew
*pʰew, *pʰews
*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
*pʰew, *pʰews
*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
*pʰew, *pʰews
*pʰew
*pʰewʔ
*pʰewʔ
*pʰewʔ, *bewʔ
*pʰewʔ, *mbew
*pʰews, *bew
*pʰews
*bew
*bew
*bewʔ
*bews

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰew, *bew) : phonetic  (OC *pʰew) + semantic  (wind).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /pʰiɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /pʰiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /pʰiɑu²¹/
Jinan /pʰiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /pʰiɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /pʰiau²⁴/
Xi'an /pʰiau²¹/
Xining /pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pʰiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pʰiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pʰiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pʰiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pʰiɔo³¹/
Hefei /pʰiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰiau¹¹/
Pingyao /pʰiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /pʰɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /pʰiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /pʰiæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pʰiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /pʰiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /pʰiɔ³¹/
Tunxi /pʰiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰiau³³/
Xiangtan /pʰiaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /pʰiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /pʰiau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pʰeu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰiu⁵³/
Nanning /pʰiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pʰiu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰiau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰiau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰiau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fiau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (2)
Final () (91) (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biᴇu/ /pʰiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/biɛu/ /pʰiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjæu/ /pʰjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/biaw/ /pʰiaw/
Li
Rong
/biɛu/ /pʰiɛu/
Wang
Li
/bĭɛu/ /pʰĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ɛu/ /pʰi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
piáo piāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9752 9783
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰew/ /*bew/

Verb

  1. to drift
  2. (of snow) to fall

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(phiêu)

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