兆

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – the cracks in a shell during fortune-telling, an omen.

An autological character in oracle script: actual cracks in a shell signifying cracks.

Han character

兆 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 3211₃)

1. omen
2. (China, Japan, Korea and Singapore) trillion (million million), tera-, 10¹²
3. (China) mega-
4. (Vietnam) million, mega-

Derived characters

• 逃 挑 旐 眺 桃

See also

• 北 非
• Chinese Numeral 兆

  Last: 亿, 億; Next: 京.

References

• KangXi: page 124, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1347
• Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 268, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5146

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Cantonese

Hanzi

兆 (Yale siu6)

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Japanese

Kanji

兆 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: きざす (兆す, kizasu), きざし (兆し, kizashi)
• Nanori: とき (toki), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 億兆
• 凶兆
• 慶兆
• 衰兆
• 瑞兆
• 吉兆
• 前兆
• 兆候
• 兆民

Number

兆 (ちょう, chō)

1. 10¹², (US) trillion, (UK) billion

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Korean

Hanja

兆 (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

兆 (pinyin zhào (zhao4), Wade-Giles chao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)