蕭

See also 萧

Translingual

Han character

蕭 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿中X (TLX), four-corner 4422₇)

1. common Artemisia
2. soughing of wind > mournful
3. dejected
4. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1059, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32012
• Dae Jaweon: page 1522, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3308, character 12
• Unihan data for U+856D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蕭 (simplified 萧, Yale siu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

蕭

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: よもぎ (yomogi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蕭 (simplified 萧, pinyin xiāo (xiao1), Wade-Giles hsiao¹)

The character 肖 (Xiāo) is often used in the simplified script instead of 萧, especially as a surname and in transliterating foreign names.

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕭 (tiêu)