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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木心戈 (DPI) or 木心一 (DPM), four-corner 47920, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 511, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14466
  • Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1161, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6753

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːwɢs
*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢs
*teːwɢs
*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
*bljewɢ
*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿 *lewɢ
*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
*breːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (1) (2) (25) (5)
Final () (91) (91) (107) (127)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () III III III IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/piᴇu/ /pʰiᴇu/ /d͡ʑɨɐk̚/ /tek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/piɛu/ /pʰiɛu/ /d͡ʑiɐk̚/ /tek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/pjæu/ /pʰjæu/ /d͡ʑiɑk̚/ /tɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/piaw/ /pʰiaw/ /d͡ʑɨak̚/ /tɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/piɛu/ /pʰiɛu/ /ʑiak̚/ /tek̚/
Wang
Li
/pĭɛu/ /pʰĭɛu/ /ʑĭak̚/ /tiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯ɛu/ /pʰi̯ɛu/ /ʑi̯ak̚/ /tiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
biāo piāo shuó di
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sháo
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyak ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-tewk/
English ladle (n.)

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 11179 11180 11197 11218
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*plew/ /*pʰlew/ /*bljewɢ/ /*pleːwɢ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. handle of a cup, ladle, or spoon
  2. a Chinese constellation: the 3 stars forming the handle of the Big Dipper

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana しゃく, romaji shaku)

  1. ladle, dipper

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References