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淆
淆
Translingual
Han character
淆 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水大大月 (EKKB), four-corner 34127)
References
- KangXi: page 629, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17619
- Dae Jaweon: page 1031, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1654, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6DC6
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
淆 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (爻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 崤 | *ɢaːw, *ɢraːw |
| 郩 | *qaːwʔ |
| 敎 | *kraːw, *kraːws |
| 較 | *kreːwɢs, *kreːwɢ |
| 肴 | *ɢraːw |
| 淆 | *ɢraːw |
| 倄 | *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ |
| 爻 | *ɢraːw |
| 餚 | *ɢraːw |
| 殽 | *ɢraːw |
| 笅 | *ɢraːw |
| 駁 | *praːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢraːw) : semantic 水 + phonetic 肴 (OC *ɢraːw).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˊ
- Wade-Giles: hsiao2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyau
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
- Wade-Giles: yao2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
- IPA (key): /i̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ngaau4
- Yale: ngàauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngaau4
- IPA (key): /ŋɑːu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâu
- Tâi-lô: hâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: haau
- IPA (Quanzhou): /haʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Xiamen): /haʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /haʊ¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gâu
- Tâi-lô: gâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: gaau
- IPA (Quanzhou): /gaʊ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngâu
- Tâi-lô: ngâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: ngaau
- IPA (Xiamen): /ŋaʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋaʊ¹³/
- Note: hâu - literary; gâu/ngâu - vernacular (俗).
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 淆 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing |
/ɕiɑu³⁵/ /iɑu³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/iau²¹³/ /ʐau²¹³/ |
|
| Tianjin |
/iɑu⁴⁵/ /ɕiɑu⁴⁵/ |
|
| Jinan | /iɔ⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /ɕiɔ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /iau⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /niau²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /iɔ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɕiɔ⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ɕiɔ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɕiau⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ɕiau³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /ɕiao²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ɕiɔ³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ɕiɔo²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /iau¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | ||
| Hohhot | /iɔ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai |
/ɕiɔ³⁵/ /ɦiɔ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦiæ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦiɔ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ɦuɔ³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕiɔ³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | ||
| Xiang | Changsha | /ɕiau¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɕiaɯ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ŋau¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /hɑu¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /ŋau²¹/ |
| Nanning | /ŋau²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /ŋau²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hau³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /ŋau⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ŋau²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /ŋaũ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hiau²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 淆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 肴 (90) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 胡茅切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦˠau/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦᵚau/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣau/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦaɨw/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣau/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣau/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣau/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiáo |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 淆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14646 |
| Phonetic component |
爻 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
肴 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɢraːw/ |
Definitions
淆
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
淆
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
淆 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)
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Vietnamese
Han character
淆 (hào)
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