簫

Translingual

Han character

簫 (radical 118 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹中X (HLX), four-corner 8822₇)

References

• KangXi: page 900, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26560
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3023, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7C2B

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Chinese

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trad.		簫
simp.		箫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sêu
• Min Nan (POJ): siau

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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/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /se̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau
    • Tâi-lô: siau
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaʊ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (簫, reconstructed)
Character (簫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 蕭 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 蘇彫切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/seu/	/sieu/	/seu/	/seu/	/sɛw/	/sieu/	/seu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (簫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
簫								xiāo								‹ sew ›								/*sˤiw/								pan-pipe
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
簫					12113					肅					幽					2					蕭					/*sɯːw/

Noun

簫

1. a musical instrument like pan-pipes (also called 排簫／排箫)
2. a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music

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Japanese

Kanji

簫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

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Korean

Hanja

簫 (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Compounds

• 短簫

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Vietnamese

Han character

簫 (tiêu, tiu)

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