敖

敖 U+6556, 敖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6556 ← 敕 [U+6555] CJK Unified Ideographs 敗 → [U+6557]

Translingual

Han character

敖 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土尸人大 (GSOK) or 手尸人大 (QSOK), four-corner 4824₀, composition ⿰⿱士方攵)

1. ramble, play about
2. leisurely
3. A surname​.

Derived characters

• 贅 (赘) 螯

Synonyms

• 奢

References

• KangXi: page 471, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13226
• Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1456, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6556

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		敖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敖
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (敖) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
熬	*ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖	*ŋaːw
嗷	*ŋaːw
螯	*ŋaːw
聱	*ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲	*ŋaːw
遨	*ŋaːw
獒	*ŋaːw
滶	*ŋaːw
蔜	*ŋaːw
鷔	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇	*ŋaːw
謷	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅	*ŋaːw
嗸	*ŋaːw
摮	*ŋaːw
嫯	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲	*ŋaːws
磝	*ŋraːw

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 出 + 放 – the action 攵/攴 of a person 方 with feathers 出 in their headdress – a proud act. .

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áo (ao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngou⁴, ngou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): gô / gō / ngô͘ / ngō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: áo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aur
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngou⁴, ngou⁶
    • Yale: ngòuh, ngouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngou⁴, ngou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngou⁴, ngou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋou̯²¹/, /ŋou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gô / gō / ngô͘ / ngō͘
    • Tâi-lô: gô / gō / ngôo / ngōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gooi, goi, ngoo, ngo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /go²⁴/, /go²²/, /ŋɔ̃²⁴/, /ŋɔ̃²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /go²⁴/, /go⁴¹/, /ŋɔ̃²⁴/, /ŋɔ̃⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /go¹³/, /go²²/, /ŋɔ̃¹³/, /ŋɔ̃²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /go²⁴/, /go³³/, /ŋɔ̃²⁴/, /ŋɔ̃³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /gɤ²³/, /gɤ³³/, /ŋɔ̃²³/, /ŋɔ̃³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑu/▼

Rime
Character	敖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋaw/
Li Rong	/ŋɑu/
Wang Li	/ŋɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	áo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤaw/, /*ŋˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːw/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敖	敖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	áo	áo
Middle Chinese	‹ ngaw ›	‹ ngaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˤaw/	/*ŋˤaw/
English	tall	saunter about
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	敖
Reading #	1/1
No.	39
Phonetic component	敖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	敖
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

敖

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Compounds

• 孫叔敖／孙叔敖
• 打敖
• 敖不可長／敖不可长
• 敖包 (áobāo)
• 敖得薩／敖得萨

• 敖敖
• 敖曹
• 敖盪／敖荡
• 敖遊／敖游
• 桀敖不馴／桀敖不驯

• 笑敖
• 若敖鬼餒／若敖鬼馁
• 謔浪笑敖／谑浪笑敖
• 讙敖

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

敖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ごう (gō)
• Kun: あそぶ (asobu), おごる (ogoru)

Compounds

• 敖敖
• 敖惰
• 敖盪
• 敖民
• 敖遊

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Korean

Hanja

敖 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: ngào

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