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U+56C2, 囂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56C2

[U+56C1]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+56C3]
See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口口一金口 (RRMCR), four-corner 66668, composition吅)

  1. clamor
  2. be noisy
  3. treat with contempt

References

  • KangXi: page 214, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4616
  • Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 706, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+56C2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋaːw, *hŋraw
*hŋraw

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu²¹/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɕiau²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiau²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /siɔo³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕiæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕiɔ³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕiau³³/
Xiangtan /ɕiaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hiau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hiu⁵³/
Nanning /hiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hiu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiau²³/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
áo
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ]ˤaw/
English clamor, many voices; arrogant

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 13680 13681
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːw/ /*hŋraw/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 任囂任嚣
  • 叫囂叫嚣
  • 喧囂喧嚣 (xuānxiāo)
  • 囂俗嚣俗
  • 囂囂嚣嚣
  • 囂塵嚣尘
  • 囂張嚣张 (xiāozhāng)
  • 囂浮嚣浮
  • 囂滓嚣滓
  • 囂然嚣然
  • 囂競嚣竞
  • 囂謗嚣谤
  • 囂雜嚣杂
  • 囂頭嚣头
  • 囂風嚣风
  • 囂鬧嚣闹
  • 塵囂尘嚣
  • 它囂它嚣
  • 氣焰囂張气焰嚣张
  • 煩囂烦嚣
  • 煩囂喧鬧烦嚣喧闹
  • 甚囂塵上甚嚣尘上
  • 紛囂纷嚣
  • 繁囂繁嚣
  • 者囂者嚣
  • 虛囂虚嚣
  • 調虛囂调虚嚣
  • 諠囂喧嚣
  • 謾罵叫囂谩骂叫嚣
  • 譁囂譁嚣
  • 隗囂隗嚣

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Noisy, talking loudly without thinking about people around you.[1]

Readings

References

  1. Akiyasu Tōdō [et al.] (2002) 漢字源, ISBN 978-4053008893: “囂”

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. clamorous, noisy

Vietnamese

Han character

(hiu)

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