窔

窔 U+7A94, 窔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A94 ← 窓 [U+7A93] CJK Unified Ideographs 窕 → [U+7A95]

Translingual

Han character

窔 (radical 116 穴+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十金卜金大 (JCYCK), four-corner 3040₈, composition ⿱穴交)

References

• KangXi: page 865, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25495
• Dae Jaweon: page 1293, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2729, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7A94

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		窔
alt. forms		宎 ("corner of a room")

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (交) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
烄	*keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮	*pʰreːws
交	*kreːw
郊	*kreːw
茭	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟	*kreːw
鮫	*kreːw
鵁	*kreːw
咬	*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨	*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞	*kreːwʔ
狡	*kreːwʔ
姣	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校	*kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓	*kreːws
跤	*kʰreːw
頝	*kʰreːw
骹	*kʰraːw
齩	*ŋɡreːwʔ
洨	*ɡreːw
胶	*ɡreːw
效	*ɡreːws
効	*ɡreːws
傚	*ɡreːws
皎	*keːwʔ
恔	*keːwʔ
晈	*keːwʔ
窔	*qeːws
駮	*pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yào (yao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu², ngau⁵, jiu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yào
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yaw
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu², ngau⁵, jiu³
    • Yale: yíu, ngáuh, yiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu², ngau⁵, jiu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu², ngeo⁵, yiu³
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³⁵/, /ŋɐu̯¹³/, /jiːu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔeu^H/▼

Rime
Character	窔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏叫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔeuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔeuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔeuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛwH/
Li Rong	/ʔeuH/
Wang Li	/ieuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔieuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窔
Reading #	1/1
No.	6338
Phonetic component	交
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	窔
Old Chinese	/*qeːws/

Definitions

窔

1. ^† southeastern corner of a room
2. ^† quiet and far

Compounds

• 奧窔／奥窔

• 窔遼／窔辽

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

窔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: ふかい (fukai)