肖

Translingual

Han character

肖 (radical 130 肉+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火月 (FB), four-corner 9022₇, composition ⿱⺌⺼)

1. look like, resemble, be like

References

• KangXi: page 973, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29263
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2045, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8096

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		肖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiào (xiao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ciu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiào
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hsiao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiaw
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ciu³
    • Yale: chiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsiu³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːu̯³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (肖, reconstructed)
Character (肖), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 宵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 私妙切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siᴇuH/	/si̯ɛuH/	/siɛuH/	/siɛuH/	/siawH/	/sĭɛuH/	/sjæuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (肖, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
肖								xiāo								‹ sjew ›								/*[s]ew/								disappear
肖								xiào								‹ sjewH ›								/*[s]ew-s/								resemble
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
肖					13754					肖					宵					2					宵					/*slew/					見莊子史記
肖					13755					肖					宵					2					𥬇					/*slews/					從肉小會消瘠意，小非聲，與後起從肉肖聲翟聲字同源

Usage notes

Also xiāo, is often used instead of 萧(蕭).

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Japanese

Kanji

肖

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: にる (niru), かたどる (katadoru), あやかる (ayakaru)

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Korean

Hanja

肖 (cho, so) (hangeul 초, 소, revised cho, so, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, so, Yale cho, so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

肖 (tiếu, tiêu)

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