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U+55BF, 喿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BF

[U+55BE]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55C0]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口口口木 (RRRD) or X口口口木 (XRRRD), four-corner 60904, composition)

  1. chirping of birds, insects, etc.
  2. make an uproar or clamour

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 201, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4029
  • Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 667, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+55BF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsaːwʔ
*ʔslaːwʔ
*ʔsaːwʔ
*ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
*ʔsaːws
*ʔsaːws
*sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
*sʰaːw, *sʰaw
*sʰaːwʔ
*sʰaːws
*zaːw, *sʰaw
*saːw, *saːws
*saːw
*saːwʔ, *saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*saːws
*ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
*soːwʔ, *srow

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (three birds) +  (tree).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/sɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sawH/
Li
Rong
/sɑuH/
Wang
Li
/sɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16584
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*saːws/
Notes

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. chirping of birds

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. chirping of birds