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兆

兆

兆 U+5146, 兆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5146
← 充
[U+5145] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兇 →
[U+5147]

Translingual

An autological character in oracle script: actual cracks in a shell signifying cracks.

Han character

兆 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 32113, composition ⿻儿⿰冫⿱丿丶)

  1. omen
  2. (China, Japan, Korea and Singapore) trillion (million million), tera-, 1012
  3. (China) mega-
  4. (Vietnam) million, mega-

Derived characters

See also

  • Chinese Numeral 兆
    Last: 亿, 億; Next: 京.

References

  • KangXi: page 124, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1347
  • Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 268, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5146

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 兆

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 兆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 宵 (92)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 治小切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚiɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖiawX/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 兆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lr[a]wʔ/
English great number

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 兆
Reading # 1/1
No. 16856
Phonetic
component		 兆
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 肇
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ewʔ/

Definitions

兆

  1. omen
  2. (Obsolete in Mainland China) trillion (million million), tera-, 1012
  3. (Taiwan) trillion, tera-, 1012
  4. (China) (SI prefix) million, mega-, 106

Synonyms

  • 萬億 (number 1012 in Mainland China)
  • 太 (SI prefix tera- 1012 in Mainland China)
  • 百萬 (SI prefix mega- 106 in Taiwan)

Japanese

Kanji

兆

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. portent
  2. trillion, 1012
  3. sign
  4. omen
  5. symptoms

Readings

Compounds

Number

兆 (ちょう, chō)

  1. 1012, (US) trillion, (UK) billion

Korean

Hanja

兆 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 兆
Oracle bone script Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Oracle bone script

j01450

j01451

j01452
Large seal script

L34835

L34836

L16555

L16556

L16557

L16558

L16559

L16560

L16561

L16562

L16563
Small seal script

s02381

s02382
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
挑 *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮 *l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃 *l'aːw
逃 *l'aːw
咷 *l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗 *l'aːw
鞉 *l'aːw
駣 *l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
脁 *l̥ʰews
晁 *l'ew
兆 *l'ewʔ
旐 *l'ewʔ
狣 *l'ewʔ
鮡 *l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗 *l'ewʔ
姚 *lew
珧 *lew
銚 *lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌 *lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑 *lew
餆 *lew
筄 *lews
艞 *lews
佻 *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧 *l̥ʰeːw
朓 *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣 *l̥ʰeːw
趒 *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎 *l̥ʰeːw
眺 *l̥ʰeːws
覜 *l̥ʰeːws
頫 *l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩 *l̥ʰeːws
跳 *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕 *l'eːwʔ
誂 *l'eːwʔ

Pictogram (象形) – the cracks in a shell during fortune-telling, an omen.

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