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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女木 (VFVVD), four-corner 22994)

  1. reel silk from cocoons
  2. rich and bright colors

References

  • KangXi: page 937, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27854
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3450, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7E45

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔslaːwʔ
*ʔslaːwʔ, *slaːw
*ʔslaːwʔ
*ʔsraːw, *sʰraːws
*ʔsraːw, *raːw
*sʰraːw, *zraːw, *ʔslawʔ
*zraːw, *zraːws
*zraːw
*zraːw
*zraːw
*ʔslawʔ
*ʔslawʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sawX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zǎo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1288 1290
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔslaːwʔ/ /*slaːw/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 繅繭缫茧
  • 繅車缫车

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. draw
  2. reel silk from cocoons
  3. elegant compositions

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

  1. draw
  2. reel silk from cocoons
  3. elegant compositions