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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人中人木 (OLOD), four-corner 28294, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 529, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14859
  • Dae Jaweon: page 917, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 176, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+689D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰɯːw
*ʔl'ɯːwʔ, *l̥ʰɯːws
*l̥ʰɯːw, *l'ɯːwɢ
*l'ɯːw
*l'ɯːw
*l'ɯːw
*l'ɯːw
*l'ɯːw
*l'ɯːws
*slɯːw, *hljɯwɢ
*slɯːwʔ
*slɯːwʔ
*slɯw
*slɯw
*slɯw
*slɯwʔ
*lɯw
*lɯw
*lɯw
*l̥ʰɯːwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ɯːw) : phonetic  (OC *lɯw) + semantic .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tʰiɑu³⁵/
Harbin /tʰiau²⁴/
Tianjin /tʰiɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /tʰiɔ⁴²/
Qingdao /tʰiɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tʰiau⁴²/
Xi'an /tʰiau²⁴/
Xining /tʰiɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /tʰiɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /tʰiɔ⁵³/
Ürümqi /tʰiɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /tʰiau²¹³/
Chengdu /tʰiau³¹/
Guiyang /tʰiao²¹/
Kunming /tʰiɔ³¹/
Nanjing /tʰiɔo²⁴/
Hefei /tʰiɔ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰiau¹¹/
Pingyao /tʰiɔ¹³/
/tiɔ¹³/ ~帚帚
Hohhot /tʰiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /diɔ²³/
Suzhou /diæ¹³/
Hangzhou /diɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /diɛ³¹/
Hui Shexian /tʰiɔ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /tʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /tiau¹³/
Xiangtan /diaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /tʰiɛu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /tʰiau¹¹/
Taoyuan /tʰiɑu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰiu²¹/
Nanning /tʰiu²¹/
Hong Kong /tʰiu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiau³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɛu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiau³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tiau⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdiau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/deu/
Pan
Wuyun
/deu/
Shao
Rongfen
/deu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛw/
Li
Rong
/deu/
Wang
Li
/dieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiáo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiáo tiáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ dew › ‹ dew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[l]ˤiw/ /*lˤiw/
English arrange branch (n.), shoot (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 # 1/1
No. 15466
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯːw/

Definitions

  1. strip; slip
  2. twig; branch
  3. (of law or treaty) item; article; clause; condition
  4. informal note
  5. Classifier for long and thin object or animal.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jo) (hangeul , revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(điều, huy)

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