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)

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
variant forms		謿

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 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháo, zhāo (chao², zhao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄠˊ, ㄓㄠ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cháo
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄠˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chaur
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: chao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jau
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Note: zhāo - literary variant.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaau¹
    • Yale: jāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zao¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡säːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiâu
    • Tâi-lô: tiâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diaau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tiaʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaʊ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
    • Tâi-lô: sau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saw
    • IPA (Taipei, 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

1. to ridicule; to deride; to scorn; to jeer at
2. (literary) to chant; to recite poetry with a cadence

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhāo (zhao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: chao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jau
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嘲

1. (literary) twitter (of birds)

Compounds

• 冷嘲熱罵／冷嘲热骂
• 冷嘲熱諷／冷嘲热讽 (lěngcháorèfěng)
• 冷譏熱嘲／冷讥热嘲
• 嘲哳
• 嘲啾
• 嘲弄 (cháonòng)
• 嘲惹
• 嘲戲／嘲戏
• 嘲撥／嘲拨

• 嘲歌
• 嘲笑 (cháoxiào)
• 嘲罵／嘲骂
• 嘲訕／嘲讪
• 嘲詼／嘲诙
• 嘲諷／嘲讽 (cháofěng)
• 嘲諷漫罵／嘲讽漫骂
• 嘲謔／嘲谑

• 嘲風弄月／嘲风弄月
• 嘲風詠月／嘲风咏月
• 弄月嘲風／弄月嘲风
• 聊以解嘲
• 自嘲 (zìcháo)
• 自我解嘲
• 解嘲 (jiěcháo)
• 譏嘲／讥嘲 (jīcháo)

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Japanese

Kanji

嘲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. ridicule, insult

Readings

• Go-on: 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); あざけり (azakeri, 嘲り)

Compounds

Compounds

• 嘲 (ちょう)花 (か) (Chōka)
• 嘲 (ちょう)戯 (ぎ) (chōgi)
• 嘲謔 (ちょうぎゃく) (chōgyaku)
• 嘲 (ちょう)斎坊 (さいぼう) (chōsaibō)
• 嘲殺 (ちょうさつ) (chōsatsu)
• 嘲 (ちょう)笑 (しょう) (chōshō)
• 嘲 (ちょう)罵 (ば) (chōba)
• 嘲 (ちょう)風 (ふう) (Chōfū)
• 嘲 (ちょう)弄 (ろう) (chōrō)
• 嘲 (とう)風 (ふう) (Tōfū)
• 解嘲 (かいとう) (kaitō), 解嘲 (かいちょう) (kaichō)
• 自 (じ)嘲 (ちょう) (jichō)
• 侮 (ぶ)嘲 (ちょう) (buchō)
• 冷 (れい)嘲 (ちょう) (reichō)
• 嘲 (あざ)笑 (わら)う (azawarau)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
嘲
ちょう Grade: S
goon

*/teu/ → /t͡səu/ → /t͡ɕɔː/ → /t͡ɕoː/

Appears in 洒落本 (sharebon) texts in the mid-late Edo period.

From Middle Chinese 嘲 (MC ʈˠau).

Verb

嘲す (hiragana ちょうす, rōmaji chōsu, historical hiragana てうす)

1. (archaic, obsolete) to ridicule, scorn

   Synonyms: 嘲る (azakeru), 嘲弄する (chōrō suru), 馬鹿にする (baka ni suru)

嘲す (yodan conjugation, hiragana ちょうす, rōmaji chōsu, historical hiragana てうす)

1. (archaic, obsolete) Same as above

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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