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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 130 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月女女田 (BVVW), four-corner 72263, composition𡿺)

References

  • KangXi: page 988, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2100, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8166

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nuːʔ, *nuːs
*nuːʔ
*nuːʔ
*nuːʔ
*nuːʔ
*rnuː
𣳦 *rnuː

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (8) (8)
Final () (89) (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nawX/ /nawH/
Li
Rong
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Wang
Li
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑuX/ /nɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nǎo nào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ nawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤ[u]ʔ/
English brain

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. 9370 9375
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːʔ/ /*nuːs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. brain

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

(noe) (hangeul )

  1. Hanja form? of , “brain”.

Vietnamese

Han character

(não)

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