髟

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 镸 (“long”) + 彡 (“hair”)

Han character

髟 (radical 190 髟+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈竹竹竹 (SIHHH), four-corner 7272₂)

1. hair
2. KangXi radical 190

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/髟

References

• KangXi: page 1452, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45355
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4518, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9ADF

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		髟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): phiau
• Min Nan (POJ): biau / sam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: piao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phiau
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pʰi̯au̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biau / sam
    • Tâi-lô: biau / sam
    • IPA (Taipei): /biaʊ⁴⁴/, /sam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biaʊ³⁴/, /sam³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (髟, reconstructed)
Character (髟), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 宵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 甫遙切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/piᴇu/	/pi̯ɛu/	/piɛu/	/piɛu/	/piaw/	/pĭɛu/	/pjæu/
Character (髟), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 幽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 甫烋切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/piɪu/	/pieu/	/piĕu/	/pɨu/	/pjiw/	/piəu/	/pieu/
Character (髟), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 生 (21) Final: 銜 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 所銜切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʃɣam/	/ʂam/	/ʃam/	/ʃɯam/	/ʂaɨm/	/ʃam/	/ʃam/

Old Chinese pronunciation (髟, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
髟								biāo								‹ pjiw ›								/*p(r)iw/								long hair
髟								shān								‹ sræm ›								/*s(ˤ)ram/								long hair
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
髟					792					髟					幽					3					彪					/*priw/
髟					793					髟					幽					3					飊					/*piw/
髟					11045					彡					談					3					衫					/*sroːm/

References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

髟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. long hair
2. mane

Readings

• On: ひょう (hyō), ひゅう (hyū)

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Korean

Hanja

髟 (pyo) (hangeul 표, revised pyo, McCune-Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

髟 (tiêu)

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