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Translingual

Han character

(radical 115 +7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火月 (HDFB), four-corner 29927, composition)

  1. little, slightly
  2. rather

References

  • KangXi: page 854, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25083
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1279, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2606, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7A0D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *slewɢs
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sreːws
*sreːws
*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
*sreːws
*sreːws
*sʰewʔ
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*zews
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*slew
*sew
*slew, *slews
*slewɢs
*l'ewʔ
*seːw, *sleːw
*seːw
*slewɢ
*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/ʃauH/
Wang
Li
/ʃauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shào
Middle
Chinese
‹ sræwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s](ˤ)rew-s/
English rations

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. 13725
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːws/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Adverb

(hiragana やや, romaji yaya)

  1. slightly

Korean

Hanja

(cho) (hangeul , revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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