宵

Translingual

Han character

宵 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十火月 (JFB), four-corner 3022₇, composition ⿱宀肖)

1. night, evening, dark

References

• KangXi: page 286, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7168
• Dae Jaweon: page 566, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 932, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5BB5

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		宵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: hsiao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (宵, reconstructed)
Character (宵), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 宵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 相邀切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siᴇu/	/si̯ɛu/	/siɛu/	/siɛu/	/siaw/	/sĭɛu/	/sjæu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (宵, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
宵								xiāo								‹ sjew ›								/*[s]ew/								night, evening
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
宵					13740					肖					宵					2					宵					/*sew/

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Japanese

Kanji

宵

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: よい (yoi)

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Korean

Hanja

宵 (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宵 (tiêu)

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