窕

Translingual

Han character

窕 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十金中一人 (JCLMO), four-corner 3011₃, composition ⿱穴兆)

1. slender
2. quiet and modest, charming

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25496
• Dae Jaweon: page 1293, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2729, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7A95

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Chinese

trad.		窕
simp. #		窕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 窕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
挑	*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮	*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃	*l'aːw
逃	*l'aːw
咷	*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗	*l'aːw
鞉	*l'aːw
駣	*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁	*sl̥ʰew
脁	*l̥ʰews
晁	*l'ew
兆	*l'ewʔ
旐	*l'ewʔ
狣	*l'ewʔ
鮡	*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗	*l'ewʔ
姚	*lew
珧	*lew
銚	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑	*lew
餆	*lew
筄	*lews
艞	*lews
佻	*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧	*l̥ʰeːw
朓	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣	*l̥ʰeːw
趒	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎	*l̥ʰeːw
眺	*l̥ʰeːws
覜	*l̥ʰeːws
頫	*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩	*l̥ʰeːws
跳	*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕	*l'eːwʔ
誂	*l'eːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'eːwʔ) : semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiǎo (tiao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tiu⁵ / diu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiáu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻiao³
    • Yale: tyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teau
    • Palladius: тяо (tjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tiu⁵ / diu⁶
    • Yale: tíuh / diuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tiu⁵ / diu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tiu⁵ / diu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːu̯¹³/, /tiːu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiáu
    • Tâi-lô: thiáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiau⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dewX

Rime
Character	窕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒了切
Baxter	dewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/deuX/
Pan Wuyun	/deuX/
Shao Rongfen	/deuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛwX/
Li Rong	/deuX/
Wang Li	/dieuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱieuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	diu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤ[e]wʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'eːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	窕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tiǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ dewX ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁ[e]wʔ/
English	窈窕 beautiful
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	窕
Reading #	1/1
No.	16893
Phonetic component	兆
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	窕
Old Chinese	/*l'eːwʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 窕

1. Used in 窈窕 (yǎotiǎo).

References

• “窕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

窕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii)

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Korean

Hanja

窕 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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