簫

See also: 箫

Translingual

Traditional	簫
Shinjitai (extended)	簘
Simplified	箫

Han character

簫 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹中難 (HLX), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱⺮肅)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 900, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26560
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3023, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7C2B

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Chinese

trad.		簫
simp.		箫
alternative forms		簘 箾 𪛕 𪛖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
簫	*sɯːw
蕭	*sɯːw
瀟	*sɯːw
潚	*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
彇	*sɯːw
蟰	*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
橚	*sɯːw, *sɯwɢ
嘯	*sɯːwɢs
歗	*sɯːwɢs
熽	*sɯːwɢs
繡	*sɯwɢs
鏽	*sɯwɢs
肅	*sɯwɢ
鷫	*sɯwɢ
驌	*sɯwɢ
鱐	*sɯwɢ
璛	*sɯwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sêu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau
    • Tâi-lô: siau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sew

Rime
Character	簫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蘇彫切
Baxter	sew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/seu/
Pan Wuyun	/seu/
Shao Rongfen	/seu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛw/
Li Rong	/seu/
Wang Li	/sieu/
Bernard Karlgren	/sieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sˤiw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	簫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiāo
Middle Chinese	‹ sew ›
Old Chinese	/*sˁiw/
English	pan-pipe
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	簫
Reading #	1/1
No.	12113
Phonetic component	肅
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蕭
Old Chinese	/*sɯːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 簫

1. xiao, a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music (also called 洞簫／洞箫 (dòngxiāo))
2. a musical instrument like pan-pipes (also called 排簫／排箫 (páixiāo))
3. Xiao

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

簫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 簘)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

Compounds

Compounds

• 簫鼓(しょうこ) (shōko): flutes and drums
• 簫(しょう)の笛(ふえ) (shō no fue): xiao (Chinese flute)
• 長簫(ちょうしょう) (chōshō)
• 洞簫(どうしょう) (dōshō): xiao (Chinese flute)
• 排簫(はいしょう) (haishō)

Kanji in this term
簫
しょう Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 簫／箫 (sew, “xiao (Chinese flute)”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょ​ー [shóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ː]

Noun

1. xiao (Chinese flute)

Usage notes

Synonymous with the longer phrase 簫の笛 (shō no fue, literally “shō flute”). However, given the rarity of this kanji in writing, and the large number of possible single-kanji terms pronounced as shō in Japanese, this longer term that specifies 笛 (“flute”) is used to clarify and disambiguate.

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Korean

Hanja

簫 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Compounds

• 短簫

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 簫 (tiêu, tiu)

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