囂

See also: 嚣

囂 U+56C2, 囂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56C2 ← 囁 [U+56C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 囃 → [U+56C3]

Translingual

Han character

囂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口口一金口 (RRMCR), four-corner 6666₈, composition ⿳吅頁吅)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4616
• Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 706, character 5
• Unihan data for U+56C2

Chinese

trad.		囂
simp.		嚣
alternative forms		嚻 𠽸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 囂
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
囂	*ŋaːw, *hŋraw
虈	*hŋraw

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 㗊 (“four mouths; to clamor”) + 頁 (“head”) – a clamoring crowd.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hiu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiau / hau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hiu¹
    • Yale: hīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hiu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiau
    • Tâi-lô: hiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiaw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiau⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hau
    • Tâi-lô: hau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hau³³/

Note:

• hiau - literary;
• hau - vernacular.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 囂
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕiau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/ɕiɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕiau²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ɕiau²¹/
	Xining	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiɔ³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ɕiao⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/siɔo³¹/
	Hefei	/ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕiɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕiɔ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/ɕiæ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɕiɔ³³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕiɛ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕiɔ³¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕiau³³/
	Xiangtan	/ɕiaɯ³³/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/hiau⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hiu⁵³/
	Nanning	/hiu⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/hiu⁵³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hiau⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/hieu⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/siau⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hiau³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hiau²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋraw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	囂
Reading #	2/2
No.	13681
Phonetic component	囂
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嚻
Old Chinese	/*hŋraw/

Definitions

囂

1. to be loud; to be noisy; to clamor
2. arrogant

Compounds

• 任囂／任嚣
• 叫囂／叫嚣 (jiàoxiāo)
• 喧囂 (xuānxiāo)
• 囂俗／嚣俗
• 囂俳／嚣俳 (hiau-pai) (Min Nan)
• 囂囂／嚣嚣
• 囂塵／嚣尘
• 囂張／嚣张 (xiāozhāng)
• 囂浮／嚣浮
• 囂滓／嚣滓
• 囂然／嚣然
• 囂競／嚣竞
• 囂謗／嚣谤
• 囂雜／嚣杂
• 囂頭／嚣头
• 囂風／嚣风
• 囂鬧／嚣闹
• 塵囂／尘嚣 (chénxiāo)
• 它囂／它嚣
• 氣焰囂張／气焰嚣张
• 煩囂／烦嚣
• 煩囂喧鬧／烦嚣喧闹
• 甚囂塵上／甚嚣尘上 (shènxiāochénshàng)
• 紛囂／纷嚣
• 繁囂／繁嚣
• 者囂／者嚣
• 虛囂／虚嚣
• 調虛囂／调虚嚣
• 諠囂／喧嚣 (xuānxiāo)
• 謾罵叫囂／谩骂叫嚣
• 譁囂／哗嚣
• 隗囂／隗嚣

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áo (ao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: áo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: áo
    • Wade–Giles: ao²
    • Yale: áu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aur
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	囂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	áo
Middle Chinese	‹ ngaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁaw/
English	clamor, many voices; arrogant
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	囂
Reading #	1/2
No.	13680
Phonetic component	囂
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

囂

1. (literary) Alternative form of 隞 (Áo, “Ao (capital of the Shang Dynasty)”)

Compounds

• 囂囂／嚣嚣 (áoáo)
• 囂書／嚣书 (áoshū)
• 囂然／嚣然 (áorán)
• 囂藹／嚣蔼 (áoǎi)

 

References

• “囂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

囂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Noisy, talking loudly without thinking about people around you.

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: かしましい (kashimashii, 囂しい); かまびすしい (kamabisushii, 囂しい)

Korean

Hanja

囂 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune–Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

1. clamorous, noisy

Vietnamese

Han character

囂: Hán Nôm readings: hiu

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