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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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 [edit]

(radical 10 +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 [edit]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale siu6)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Number [edit]

(ちょう, chō)

  1. 1012, (US) trillion, (UK) billion

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)