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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金卜金大 (CYCK), four-corner 80148)

  1. hinge
  2. shears, scissors

References

  • KangXi: page 1303, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40346
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4201, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9278

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*keːws, *kreːwʔ
*pʰreːws
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːws
*kʰreːw
*kʰreːw
*kʰraːw
*ŋɡreːwʔ
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*qeːws
*pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (28) (28) (28)
Final () (90) (90) (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () II II II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠau/ /kˠauX/ /kˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚau/ /kᵚauX/ /kᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kau/ /kauX/ /kauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨw/ /kaɨwX/ /kaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/kau/ /kauX/ /kauH/
Wang
Li
/kau/ /kauX/ /kauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kau/ /kauX/ /kauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāo jiǎo jiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ kæwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-[k]ˤr[a]wʔ/
English shear; scissors

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 6303 6308 6315
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːw/ /*kreːwʔ/ /*kreːws/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 鉸釘铰钉

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings