爊

爊 U+720A, 爊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-720A ← 爉 [U+7209] CJK Unified Ideographs 爋 → [U+720B]

Translingual

Han character

爊 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 火戈心火 (FIPF), four-corner 9083₁, composition ⿰火麃)

Derived characters

• 𧅃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 686, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19546
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2246, character 3
• Unihan data for U+720A

Chinese

trad.		爊
simp. #		爊
alternative forms		𤏶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鏖	*quː
𤏶	*quː
麀	*qɯw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āo, áo (ao¹, ao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠ, ㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: āo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ao
    • Wade–Giles: ao¹
    • Yale: āu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: au
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: áo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: áo
    • Wade–Giles: ao²
    • Yale: áu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aur
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngou⁴
    • Yale: ngòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋou̯²¹/

Definitions

爊

1. (literary) to roast in ashes
2. (literary) to simmer over low fire
3. (literary) Alternative form of 熬 (āo)