縞

See also: 缟

縞 U+7E1E, 縞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E1E ← 縝 [U+7E1D] CJK Unified Ideographs 縟 → [U+7E1F]

Translingual

Han character

縞 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜口月 (VFYRB), four-corner 2092₇, composition ⿰糹高)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27777
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3438, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7E1E

Chinese

trad.		縞
simp.		缟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 縞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	*kaːw, *kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞	*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗	*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːwʔ, *kaːws): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 高 (OC *kaːw).

Etymology

Same word as 暠 (OC *kaːwʔ, “bright; white”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎo (gao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǎo
    • Wade–Giles: kao³
    • Yale: gǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gao
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gou²
    • Yale: góu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kawX, kawH

Rime
Character	縞	縞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古老切	古到切
Baxter	kawX	kawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kawX/	/kawH/
Li Rong	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Wang Li	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑuX/	/kɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǎo	gào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gou2	gou3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːwʔ/, /*kaːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縞	縞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3732	3737
Phonetic component	高	高
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	暠	誥
Old Chinese	/*kaːwʔ/	/*kaːws/

Definitions

縞

1. (historical) white raw silk
2. (literary) white
3. (literary) to shine upon

Compounds

• 炫晝縞夜 / 炫昼缟夜
• 綺縞 / 绮缟
• 縞冠 / 缟冠
• 縞素 / 缟素 (gǎosù)
• 縞紵 / 缟纻
• 縞衣 / 缟衣
• 齊紈魯縞 / 齐纨鲁缟

Descendants

• → Tocharian B: *kaum ~ *kom (“[a bolt of] unbleached silk”), kaumma ? pl (accusative)

Japanese

Kanji

縞

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. stripe (しま)
2. white raw silk (しろぎぬ)

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu, 縞)、しま (shima, 縞)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しま [shìmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɕima̠]

Noun

縞(しま) • (shima) 

1. stripe

Usage notes

The reading しま (shima, “stripe”) is an instance of 国訓(こっくん) (kokkun, “Japanese-specific meaning”), similar to 鎬(しのぎ) (shinogi, “grind line”).

Derived terms

• 縞(しま)馬(うま) (shimauma, “zebra”)
• 縞(しま)栗(り)鼠(す) (shimarisu, “chipmunk”)

References

• “^▲縞”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

縞 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縞: Hán Việt readings: cảo

1. chữ Hán form of cảo (“white raw silk (historical)”)