肴

See also 餚

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 爻 + semantic ⺼ (“meat”) – meat dishes. The character 爻 also has meaning of “cut, divided, sliced”, so connotations of “sliced meat, prepared meat”.

Current form resembles 乂 + 有 – the lower 乂 of 爻 has moved to the side and down.

Han character

肴 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大大月 (KKB), four-corner 4022₇)

1. cooked or prepared meat

References

• KangXi: page 976, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29322
• Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2049, character 17
• Unihan data for U+80B4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

肴 (traditional 餚, Yale ngaau4)

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Japanese

Kanji

肴

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: さかな (sakana)

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Korean

Hanja

肴 (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

肴 (traditional 餚, pinyin yáo (yao2), Wade-Giles yao²)