爻

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 爻
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形): 乂 + 乂 – 2 stacked ‘X’ marks, indicating cuts or marks.

Han character

爻 (radical 89 爻+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大大 (KK), four-corner 4040₀, composition ⿱㐅乂)

1. diagrams for divination
2. Kangxi radical #89, ⽘ ‎(“double X”).

References

• KangXi: page 690, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19737
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 34, character 4
• Unihan data for U+723B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		爻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yèu
• Min Nan (POJ): ngâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaau⁴
    • Yale: ngàauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaau⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɑːu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: ieuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yeu²
    • IPA: /i̯eu̯¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ieuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yeu²
    • IPA: /(j)i̯eu̯¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngâu
    • Tâi-lô: ngâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ngaau
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋaʊ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋaʊ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠau/▼

Rime
Character	爻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡茅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨw/
Li Rong	/ɣau/
Wang Li	/ɣau/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*N-kˤraw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢraːw/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爻	爻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáo	yáo
Middle Chinese	‹ hæw ›	‹ hæw ›
Old Chinese	/*N-kˤraw/	/*N-kˤraw/
English	change; hexagram	change; hexagram
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	爻
Reading #	1/1
No.	14649
Phonetic component	爻
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	肴
Old Chinese	/*ɢraːw/

Definitions

爻

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References

• “Query for 爻”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

爻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: まじわる (majiwaru)

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Korean

Hanja

爻 • ‎(hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爻 (hào, loài)

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