椒

Translingual

Han character

椒 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木卜火水 (DYFE), four-corner 4794₀, composition ⿰木叔)

References

• KangXi: page 536, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15029
• Dae Jaweon: page 924, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1230, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6912

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		椒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāo (jiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: chiao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ziu¹
    • Yale: jīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dziu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇu/▼

Rime
Character	椒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即消切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siaw/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛu/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s.tˤiw/, /*S.tew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsliw/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	椒	椒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiāo	jiāo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsew ›	‹ tsjew ›
Old Chinese	/*s.tˤiw/	/*S.tew/
English	pepper plant	pepper plant
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	椒
Reading #	1/1
No.	11724
Phonetic component	尗
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	焦
Old Chinese	/*ʔsliw/

Definitions

椒

1. pepper, chili

   • 以椒、姜、桂和烹而飲之 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     以椒、姜、桂和烹而饮之 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 7

     yǐ jiāo, jiāng, guì hé pēng ér yǐn zhī [Pinyin]

     ...use pepper, ginger or tumeric, and cinnamon (ie. Cinnamomum cassia) to boil as a drink.

2. spices

Compounds

• 青椒 ‎(qīngjiāo)
• 辣椒 ‎(làjiāo)
• 菜椒 ‎(càijiāo)

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Japanese

Kanji

椒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: はじかみ (hajikami)

Compounds

• 胡椒 (こしょう) ‎(koshō)
• 山椒 (さんしょう) ‎(sanshō)

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Korean

Hanja

椒 • ‎(cho)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 초 (revised: cho, McCune-Reischauer: ch'o, Yale: cho)

• Name (hangeul): 산초나무 초()

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Vietnamese

Han character

椒 (tiêu)

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