兆

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – the cracks in a shell during fortune-telling, an omen.

An autological character in oracle script: actual cracks in a shell signifying cracks.

Han character

兆 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 3211₃)

1. omen
2. (China, Japan, Korea and Singapore) trillion (million million), tera-, 10¹²
3. (China) mega-
4. (Vietnam) million, mega-

Derived characters

• 逃 挑 旐 眺 桃

See also

• 北 非
• Chinese Numeral 兆

  Last: 亿, 億; Next: 京.

References

• KangXi: page 124, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1347
• Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 268, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5146

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Cantonese

Hanzi

兆 (Yale siu6)

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Japanese

Kanji

兆

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: ちょう (chō) < てう (teu)
• Kun: きざす (兆す, kizasu), きざし (兆し, kizashi)
• Nanori: とき (toki), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 兆候 (ちょうこう, chōkō) "symptom, indication"
• 兆民 (ちょうみん, chōmin), "everybody"
• 慶兆 (けいちょう, keichō) "auspicious omen"
• 吉兆（きっちょう, kisshō）"good omen, auspicious"
• 兆し (きざし, kizashi) "sign, omen"
• 凶兆 (きょうちょう, kyōchō), "ill omen, inauspicious"
• 億兆 (おくちょう, okuchō) "the masses, the people"
• 衰兆 (すいちょう, suichō) "signs of decline"
• 前兆 (ぜんちょう, zenchō), "harbinger"
• 瑞兆（ずいちょう, zuichō), "felicitous omen"

Number

兆 (ちょう, chō)

1. 10¹², (US) trillion, (UK) billion

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Korean

Hanja

兆 (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

兆 (Pinyin zhào (zhao4), Wade-Giles chao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)