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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 木尸一土 (DSMG), four-corner 47914, composition)

  1. oar, scull, paddle
  2. to row

References

  • KangXi: page 559, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 948, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1311, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6AC2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*r'eːwɢs
*r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀 *lewɢs
*lewɢs
*lewɢs
*l̥ʰeːwɢs
*l̥ʰeːwɢs
*l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
*l'eːwɢs
*lewɢ
*r'eːwɢ
*r'eːwɢ
*r'eːwɢ
*r'eːwɢ
*r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
*l̥ʰeːwɢ
*l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
*l'eːwɢ
*l'eːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (11)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/ȡauH/
Wang
Li
/ȡauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhào
Middle
Chinese
‹ dræwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤrewk-s/
English oar

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. 2209
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*r'eːwɢs/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana かい, romaji kai)

  1. oar

Korean

Hanja

(do) (hangeul , revised do, McCune-Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Vietnamese

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