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, composition ⿻儿⿰冫⿱丿丶)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		兆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhào (zhao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tiāu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhào
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaw
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu⁶
    • Yale: siuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /siːu̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāu
    • Tâi-lô: tiāu
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaʊ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (兆, reconstructed)
Character (兆), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 澄 (11) Final: 宵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 治小切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɖiᴇuX/	/ȡʱi̯ɛuX/	/ȡiɛuX/	/ɖiɛuX/	/ɖiawX/	/ȡĭɛuX/	/ȡjæuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (兆, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
兆								zhào								‹ drjewX ›								/*lr[a]wʔ/								great number
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
兆					16856					兆					宵					2					肇					/*l'ewʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

兆

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. portent
2. trillion, 10¹²
3. sign
4. omen
5. symptoms

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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Vietnamese

Han character

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)

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