嘲

嘲 U+5632, 嘲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5632 ← 嘱 [U+5631] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘳 → [U+5633]

Translingual

Han character

嘲 (radical 30 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口十十月 (RJJB), four-corner 6702₀, composition ⿰口朝)

1. ridicule, deride, scorn, jeer at

References

• KangXi: page 207, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4254
• Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 681, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5632

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
嘲	*ʔr'eːw
廟	*mrews
朝	*ʔr'ew, *r'ew
潮	*r'ew

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháo (chao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau¹
• Min Nan (POJ): tiâu / sau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cháo
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chaur
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaau¹
    • Yale: jāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zao¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiâu
    • Tâi-lô: tiâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diaau
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiaʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiaʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaʊ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
    • Tâi-lô: sau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saw
    • IPA (Taipei): /saʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /saʊ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠau/▼

Rime
Character	嘲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	陟交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈaɨw/
Li Rong	/ȶau/
Wang Li	/ȶau/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔr'eːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘲
Reading #	1/1
No.	1305
Phonetic component	朝
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	嘲
Old Chinese	/*ʔr'eːw/

Definitions

嘲

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Japanese

Kanji

嘲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. sneer
2. (a bird) sing

Readings

• Goon: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kan’on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: あざける (azakeru, 嘲る, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 嘲詼
• 嘲笑

• 嘲誚
• 嘲罵

• 嘲弄
• 自嘲

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Korean

Hanja

嘲 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘲 (trào, chào, ràu, nhào, rầu, thều, trều)

1. Chữ Nôm writing system character for chào which means hello.

Compounds

• 嘲𣇜𤏬
• 吀嘲
• 嘲𣇜𣋁
• 祝𥄬𤯆
• 嘲英
• 嘲姊