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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿中X (TLX), four-corner 44227, composition)

  1. common Artemisia
  2. sighing of wind
  3. mournful
  4. dejected
  5. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1059, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32012
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1522, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3308, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+856D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sɯːw
*sɯːw
*sɯːw
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːw
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯːwɢs
*sɯwɢs
*sɯwɢs
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ
*sɯwɢ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu²¹/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /siɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /siau²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiau²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /siɔo³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /siæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /siɔ³¹/
Tunxi /siu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /siau³³/
Xiangtan /siaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /siau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /seu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /siu⁵³/
Nanning /ɬiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /siu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siau⁵⁵/
/sio⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siau²³/
/tiau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seu/
Pan
Wuyun
/seu/
Shao
Rongfen
/seu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛw/
Li
Rong
/seu/
Wang
Li
/sieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sew › ‹ sew ›
Old
Chinese
/*sˤiw/ /*sˤiw/
English Artemisia 蕭蕭 neighing of horses

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. 12114
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːw/

Definitions

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Compounds

Usage notes

The character (Xiāo) is often used in the simplified script instead of , especially as a surname and in transliterating foreign names.


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu)

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