卲

卲 U+5372, 卲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5372 ← 危 [U+5371] CJK Unified Ideographs 即 → [U+5373]

Translingual

Han character

卲 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸口尸中 (SRSL), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿰召卩)

1. eminent, lofty
2. beautiful
3. a surname

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2854
• Dae Jaweon: page 364, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 313, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5372

Chinese

simp. and trad.		卲

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*taːw
舠	*taːw
朷	*taːw, *moːɡ
叨	*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒	*taːwʔ, *taːws
到	*taːws
菿	*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀	*deːw
鳭	*rteːw, *teːw
灱	*hreːw
菬	*sdew, *tjewʔ
超	*tʰew
怊	*tʰew, *tʰjew
欩	*tʰew
召	*dews, *djews
昭	*tjew
招	*tjew
鉊	*tjew
沼	*tjewʔ
照	*tjews
詔	*tjews
炤	*tjews
弨	*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧	*tʰjewʔ
韶	*djew
佋	*djew, *djewʔ
軺	*djew, *lew
玿	*djew
柖	*djew
紹	*djewʔ
袑	*djewʔ
綤	*djewʔ
邵	*djews
劭	*djews
卲	*djews
刁	*teːw
芀	*teːw, *deːw
貂	*teːw
蛁	*teːw
迢	*deːw
苕	*deːw
髫	*deːw
岧	*deːw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shào (shao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siāu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shào
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shào
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴
    • Yale: shàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaw
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu⁶
    • Yale: siuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siāu
    • Tâi-lô: siāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyewH

Rime
Character	卲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	寔照切
Baxter	dzyewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiawH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djews/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卲
Reading #	1/1
No.	2151
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	邵
Old Chinese	/*djews/

Definitions

卲

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Japanese

Kanji

卲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō); じょう (jō)
• Kun: たかい (takai, 卲い)

Korean

Hanja

卲 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卲: Hán Việt readings: thiệu, thiều
卲: Nôm readings: thiệu, thiêu

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