奏

See also: 秦, 奉, and 泰

Translingual

Etymology

𡗗 + 天

Han character

奏 (radical 37 大+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹大 (QKHK), four-corner 5043₀, composition ⿱𡗗天)

1. play (music)
2. memorialize an emperor
3. report

References

• KangXi: page 251, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5915
• Dae Jaweon: page 512, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 537, character 1
• Unihan data for U+594F

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		奏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zòu (zou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau³, cau³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): cháu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tsou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzow
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau³, cau³
    • Yale: jau, chau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau³, tsau³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/, /t͡sʰɐu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡saʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saʊ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (奏, reconstructed)
Character (奏), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 則候切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡səuH/	/t͡sə̯uH/	/t͡suH/	/t͡səuH/	/t͡səwH/	/t͡səuH/	/t͡səuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (奏, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
奏								zòu								‹ tsuwH ›								/*tsˤo(ʔ)-s/								bring forward; perform (music)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
奏					17908					奏					侯					0					奏					/*ʔsoːs/

Definitions

奏

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Compounds

• 吹奏乐器
• 奏功
• 奏捷
• 奏凯
• 奏鸣曲
• 奏效
• 奏乐

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Japanese

Kanji

奏

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: かなでる (kanaderu), すすめる (susumeru)

Compounds

• 奏楽
• 奏功
• 奏効
• 奏上
• 奏鳴曲
• 奏聞

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Korean

Hanja

奏 (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奏 (tấu, táu, tâu, thần)

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