捎

Translingual

Han character

捎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手火月 (QFB), four-corner 5902₇, composition ⿰扌肖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 433, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12148
• Dae Jaweon: page 783, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1881, character 4
• Unihan data for U+634E

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Chinese

trad.		捎
simp. #		捎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 捎
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): shāo (shao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saau¹ / siu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sêu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sau / sa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shao
    • Wade–Giles: shao¹
    • Yale: shāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saau¹ / siu¹
    • Yale: sāau / sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saau¹ / siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sao¹ / xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːu̯⁵⁵/, /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau / sa
    • Tâi-lô: sau / sa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saw, saf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sau⁴⁴/, /sa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/, /sa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sau⁴⁴/, /sa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sau⁴⁴/, /sa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sau⁴⁴/, /sa⁴⁴/

Note:

• sau - literary;
• sa - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: sjew, sraew

Rime
Character	捎	捎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	相邀切	所交切
Baxter	sjew	sraew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/	/ʃˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/	/ʃᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/	/ʃau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/	/ʂaɨw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/	/ʃau/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/	/ʃau/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/	/ʂau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo	shāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1	saau1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːw/, /*sew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	捎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shāo
Middle Chinese	‹ sew ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁew/
English	eliminate
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	捎	捎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13711	13749
Phonetic component	肖	肖
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	梢	宵
Old Chinese	/*sreːw/	/*sew/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 捎

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References

• “捎”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

捎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: とる (toru)

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Korean

Hanja

捎 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 捎 (sao)

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