綢

See also: 绸

Translingual

Han character

綢 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月土口 (VFBGR), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰糹周)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 926, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27546
• Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3417, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7DA2

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Chinese

trad.		綢
simp.		绸*
alternative forms		紬／绸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
裯	*tuːw, *dɯw, *do
啁	*tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
禂	*tuːwʔ
綢	*tʰuːw, *dɯw
翢	*tʰuːw, *duːw
錭	*duːw
雕	*tɯːw
凋	*tɯːw
琱	*tɯːw
鯛	*tɯːw
鵰	*tɯːw
彫	*tɯːw
奝	*tɯːw
調	*dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
蜩	*dɯːw
惆	*tʰɯw
婤	*tʰɯw, *tjɯw
稠	*dɯw
椆	*dɯw, *tjɯws
周	*tjɯw
輖	*tjɯw
賙	*tjɯw
郮	*tjɯw
晭	*tjɯwʔ
倜	*tʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóu (chou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴
• Northern Min (KCR): diû
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): diu⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶zeu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chóu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻou²
    • Yale: chóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chour
    • Palladius: чоу (čou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cau⁴
    • Yale: chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: diû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiu³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiû
    • Tâi-lô: tiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiu²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: diu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiu⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶zeu
    • MiniDict: zeu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zeu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zɤ²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 綢
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂʰou³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴⁵/ /t͡sʰou⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
	Qingdao	/tʃʰou⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʰɯ²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʰəu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰou⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʰɤu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡sʰəu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰəu³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰəu²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʰəu³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɯ²⁴/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰɯ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡sʰəu¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʰəu¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰəu³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/zɤ²³/
	Suzhou	/zɤ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zei²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂəu¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ɖ͡ʐəɯ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰɨu²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰu¹¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/tiu³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tieu⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tiu³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/tiu⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔdiu³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: thaw, drjuw

Rime
Character	綢	綢
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	土刀切	直由切
Baxter	thaw	drjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/	/ɖɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/	/ɖiu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/	/ȡiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/	/ɖuw/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/	/ȡiu/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/	/ȡĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/	/ȡʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo	chóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou1	cau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]riw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰuːw/, /*dɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chóu
Middle Chinese	‹ drjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]riw/
English	bind round
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	綢	綢
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17508	17527
Phonetic component	周	周
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	饕	儔
Old Chinese	/*tʰuːw/	/*dɯw/
Notes	通作韜

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 綢

1. silk cloth, satin damask

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Japanese

Kanji

綢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←ぢう (diu, historical)}; とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}; とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: まとう (matou, 綢う)

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Korean

Hanja

綢 • (ju, jo, do) (hangeul 주, 조, 도)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 綢 (trù, điều)

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