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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 129 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹大中手 (HKLQ) or 戈大中手 (IKLQ), four-corner 38507)

References

  • KangXi: page 972, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29228
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1423, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3168, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8087

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*dawʔ
*dawʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (11)
Final () (92)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠiᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚiɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖiawX/
Li
Rong
/ȡjɛuX/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16898
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*dawʔ/

Definitions

  1. to commence; to start; to begin
  2. to found
  3. to originate

Compounds

  • 僧肇
  • 肇事 (zhàoshì)
  • 肇事者
  • 肇因
  • 肇基 (zhàojī)
  • 肇始
  • 肇禍肇祸
  • 肇禍者肇祸者
  • 肇端
  • 肇論肇论
  • 肇造

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana はじめ, romaji Hajime)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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