椒

椒 U+6912, 椒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6912 ← 椑 [U+6911] CJK Unified Ideographs 椓 → [U+6913]

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

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
椒	*ʔsliw
茮	*ʔsliw
踧	*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
蔋	*l'ɯːwɢ
惄	*nɯːwɢ
戚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慼	*sʰlɯːwɢ
鏚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慽	*sʰlɯːwɢ
磩	*sʰlɯːwɢ
寂	*zlɯːwɢ
嘁	*ʔsluːb
墄	*sʰlɯːɡ
摵	*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
督	*ʔl'uːwɢ
錖	*ʔl'uːwɢ
裻	*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
傶	*ʔslɯːwɢ
蹙	*ʔslɯwɢ
槭	*ʔslɯwɢ
縬	*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
顣	*ʔslɯwɢ
敊	*l̥ʰɯwɢ
琡	*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
俶	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
埱	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
淑	*ɦljɯwɢ
婌	*ɦljɯwɢ
尗	*hljɯwɢ
叔	*hljɯwɢ
掓	*hljɯwɢ
菽	*hljɯwɢ
鮛	*hljɯwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāo (jiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chio / chiau
• Wu (Wiktionary): jiau (T1)

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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
    • Guangdong Romanization: jiu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chio / chiau
    • Tâi-lô: tsio / tsiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioy, ciaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕio³³/, /t͡ɕiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɤ⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/

Note:

• chio - vernacular;
• chiau - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: jiau (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiɔ⁵³/

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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

   • 蒙舍蠻以椒、薑、桂和烹而飲之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     蒙舍蛮以椒、姜、桂和烹而饮之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

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

     The Mengshe Barbarians use pepper, ginger, and cinnamon to boil as a drink.

2. spices

Compounds

• 川椒
• 搗椒／捣椒
• 柿子椒 (shìzijiāo)
• 椒庭
• 椒房 (Jiāofáng)
• 椒聊
• 椒花頌／椒花颂
• 椒蘭／椒兰

• 椒酒
• 椒閣／椒阁
• 椒鹽／椒盐 (jiāoyán)
• 番椒
• 秦椒
• 胡椒 (hújiāo)
• 花椒 (huājiāo)

• 菜椒 (càijiāo)
• 蓁椒
• 蜀椒
• 觀賞辣椒／观赏辣椒
• 辣椒 (làjiāo)
• 辣椒醬／辣椒酱 (làjiāojiàng)
• 青椒 (qīngjiāo)

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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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