哨

哨 U+54E8, 哨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E8 ← 哧 [U+54E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 哩 → [U+54E9]

Translingual

Han character

哨 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 口火月 (RFB), four-corner 6902₇, composition ⿰口肖)

Derived characters

• 𣺰 𪄨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 190, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3646
• Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 628, character 1
• Unihan data for U+54E8

Chinese

trad.		哨
simp. #		哨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哨
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shào (shao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saau³

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sàu

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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: saau³
    • Yale: saau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sao³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàu
    • Tâi-lô: sàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saux
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sau²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sau⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sau²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sau¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sau²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sjew, tshjewH

Rime
Character	哨	哨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	相邀切	七肖切
Baxter	sjew	tshjewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/	/t͡sʰiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/	/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/	/t͡sʰjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/	/t͡sʰiawH/
Li Rong	/siɛu/	/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/	/t͡sʰĭɛuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/	/t͡sʰi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo	qiào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1	ciu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːws/, /*sʰews/, /*sew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哨	哨	哨
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	13727	13734	13748
Phonetic component	肖	肖	肖
Rime group	宵	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	稍	陗	宵
Old Chinese	/*sreːws/	/*sʰews/	/*sew/
Notes	同月肖，又睄（巡視）之分化字	見禮記

Definitions

哨

1. to patrol (keep watch over an area by regularly walking or travelling around it)
2. sentry; sentinel; post
3. to chirp
4. to whistle
5. whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
6. a surname, Shao

Synonyms

• (to patrol):

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• 查巡 (cháxún)
• 巡查 (xúnchá)
• 巡遊 / 巡游 (xúnyóu)
• 巡邏 / 巡逻 (xúnluó)

Compounds

• 前哨 (qiánshào)
• 口哨 (kǒushào)
• 吹哨 (chuīshào)
• 呼哨 (hūshào)
• 哨兵 (shàobīng)
• 哨子 (shàozi)
• 哨戒
• 哨戒艦 / 哨戒舰
• 哨所 (shàosuǒ)
• 哨片 (shàopiàn)
• 哨聲 / 哨声 (shàoshēng)
• 哨角 (shàojiǎo)
• 崗哨 / 岗哨 (gǎngshào)
• 放哨 (fàngshào)
• 暗哨 (ànshào)
• 查哨 (cháshào)
• 步哨 (bùshào)
• 花哨 (huāshào)

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	哨󠄀 哨+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
哨󠄂 哨+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Print standard	哨
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Kanji

哨

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. to stand guard, to look out (for a suspect or enemy)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}、そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: みはり (mihari, 哨)

References

• “^▲哨”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

哨 (eum 초 (cho))

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Hanja

哨 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

哨: Hán Nôm readings: tiếu, téo, tóe/toé, tiêu

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