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U+4020, 䀠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4020

[U+401F]
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
[U+4021]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月山月山 (BUBU), composition目)

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (24) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨo/ /kɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kio/ /kioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kio/ /kioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kuə̆/ /kuə̆H/
Li
Rong
/kio/ /kioH/
Wang
Li
/kĭu/ /kĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯u/ /ki̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʷ(r)a-s/
English look right and left

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.

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. the timid look of a bird
  3. (of birds) to look around
  4. nervous
  5. (same as ) shocked or scared