爻

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

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

1. diagrams for divination

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

爻 (Jyutping ngaau4, Yale ngaau4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

爻 (POJ ngâu, Guangdong ngau², Hagfa Pinyim ngau2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

爻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: まじわる (majiwaru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爻 (Pinyin yáo (yao2), Wade-Giles yao²)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

爻 (TLPA ngâu (ngau⁵))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爻 (hào, loài)