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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火土土山 (VFGGU), four-corner 24911, composition)

  1. entwine
  2. wind around
  3. surround

References

  • KangXi: page 939, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27909
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1378, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3450, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7E5E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːws, *ŋjew
*ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
*ŋ̥ʰreːw
*hŋreːw
*hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
*hŋjew, *hŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ʔŋew
*ŋjew
*ŋjew
*ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
*ŋjewʔ
*njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
*ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
*ŋ̥ʰew
*ɡew, *ɡews
*ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
*ŋkeːw
*kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːws
*hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws) : semantic  (rope) + phonetic  (OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 繞 (圍) 繞 (線)
Mandarin Beijing /ʐɑu⁵¹/
/ʐau²¹⁴/
/ʐɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /ʐau²¹³/
/iau²¹³/
/ʐau²¹³/
/iau²¹³/
Tianjin /iɑu¹³/
/ʐɑu¹³/
/iɑu⁵³/
/ʐɑu⁵³/
Jinan /ʐɔ⁵⁵/ /ʐɔ²¹/
Qingdao /iɔ⁴²/ /iɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʐau⁵³/ /ʐau³¹²/
Xi'an /ʐau⁵³/ /ʐau⁵³/
Xining /ʐɔ⁵³/ /ʐɔ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ʐɔ⁵³/ /ʐɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /ʐɔ⁴⁴²/ /ʐɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /ʐɔ⁵¹/ /ʐɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /nau⁴²/ /nau⁴²/
Chengdu /zau⁵³/ /zau¹³/
Guiyang /zao²¹³/ /zao⁴²/
Kunming /ʐɔ⁵³/ /ʐɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /ʐɔo²¹²/ /ʐɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʐɔ²⁴/ /ʐɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /zau⁵³/ /zau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʐɔ⁵³/ /ʐɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /ʐɔ⁵³/ /ʐɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiɔ²³/ /ȵiɔ²³/
Suzhou /zæ³¹/ /ȵiæ³¹/
Hangzhou /zɔ¹³/ /ȵiɔ¹³/
Wenzhou /jiɛ³⁵/ /jiɛ²²/
Hui Shexian /niɔ³⁵/ /niɔ³⁵/
Tunxi /ȵio³¹/ /ȵio³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʐau⁴¹/ /ʐau⁴¹/
Xiangtan /iaɯ⁴²/ /iaɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ŋiau³¹/ /ŋiau³¹/
Taoyuan /ŋieu³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jiu²³/ /kʰiu²³/
Nanning /jiu³⁵/ /jiu²²/
Hong Kong /jiu¹³/ /kʰiu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liau⁵³/ /liau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nau³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /niau²¹/ /niau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ziau²¹³/ /ziau²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zau²¹³/ /zau⁵⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (38) (38)
Final () (91) (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇuX/ /ȵiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛuX/ /ȵiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjæuX/ /ȵʑjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiawX/ /ȵiawH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɛuX/ /ȵiɛuH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭɛuX/ /ȵʑĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ɛuX/ /ȵʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rǎo rào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rǎo rǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyewX › ‹ nyewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ]ewʔ/ (< uvular?) /*[ŋ]ewʔ-s/ (< uvular?)
English curved to wind round

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 14673 14676
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋjewʔ/ /*ŋjaws/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana にょう, romaji nyō, historical hiragana ねう)

  1. Chinese character radical that covers the left and bottom of a Chinese character

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

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