徭

徭 U+5FAD, 徭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FAD ← 徬 [U+5FAC] CJK Unified Ideographs 微 → [U+5FAE]

徭 U+FA85, 徭 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA85 ← 彩 [U+FA84] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 惘 → [U+FA86]

Translingual

Han character

徭 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月人山 (HOBOU), four-corner 2727₂, composition ⿰彳䍃)

1. conscript labor, compulsory labor

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 370, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10201
• Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 839, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5FAD

• Unihan data for U+FA85

Chinese

trad.		徭
simp. #		徭
alternative forms		傜 繇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (謠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
搖	*lews, *lew
遙	*lew
瑤	*lew
徭	*lew
鰩	*lew
媱	*lew
傜	*lew
颻	*lew
窰	*luː
愮	*lew
鷂	*lew, *lews
榣	*lew
嗂	*lew
猺	*lew
謠	*lew
鎐	*ʔsloːwɢ

Etymology

Perhaps related to Burmese လုပ် (lup, “to do, work”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
    • Wade–Giles: yao²
    • Yale: yáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu⁴
    • Yale: yìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*law/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáo
Middle Chinese	‹ yew ›
Old Chinese	/*law/
English	public or military service
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	徭
Reading #	1/1
No.	14707
Phonetic component	謠
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/
Notes	傜分化字見韓非子， 廣韻集韻只作傜此見玉篇

Definitions

徭

1. (literary) forced labor; corvee

   徭役  ―  yáoyì  ―  corvee

2. ^† Alternative form of 瑤／瑶 (yáo, “Yao people”)

Compounds

• 徭役 (yáoyì)
• 徭戍
• 徭稅／徭税
• 徭賦／徭赋
• 輕徭薄稅／轻徭薄税
• 輕徭薄賦／轻徭薄赋

 

Japanese

Kanji

徭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よう (yō)
• Kun: えだち (edachi)

Korean

Hanja

徭 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

徭: Hán Nôm readings: diêu

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References

• Nom Foundation