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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月山中一人 (BULMO), four-corner 62013, composition)

  1. look at, gaze at, scan, survey

References

  • KangXi: page 807, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23314
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1222, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2486, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+773A

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
*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
*l̥ʰews
*l'ew
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
*l'ewʔ
*lew
*lew
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
*lew
*lew
*lews
*lews
*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l'eːwʔ
*l'eːwʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰeuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰeuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰeuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛwH/
Li
Rong
/tʰeuH/
Wang
Li
/tʰieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiào
Middle
Chinese
‹ thewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˤew-s/
English look from a distance

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. 16881
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰeːws/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to do the evil eye
  2. to gaze

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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