繞

See also: 绕

Translingual

Han character

繞 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火土土山 (VFGGU), four-corner 2491₁, composition ⿰糹堯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 939, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27909
• Dae Jaweon: page 1378, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3450, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E5E

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
撓	*hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
鐃	*rŋaːw
譊	*rŋaːw
橈	*rŋaːws, *ŋjew
磽	*ŋ̊ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̊ʰeːwʔ
墝	*ŋ̊ʰreːw
穘	*hŋreːw
顤	*hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
燒	*hŋjew, *hŋjaws
饒	*ŋjew, *ŋjaws
蟯	*ŋjew, *ʔŋew
蕘	*ŋjew
襓	*ŋjew
繞	*ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
遶	*ŋjewʔ
嬈	*njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
趬	*ŋ̊ʰew, *ŋ̊ʰews
蹺	*ŋ̊ʰew
翹	*ɡew, *ɡews
澆	*ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
驍	*ŋkeːw
僥	*kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
堯	*ŋeːw
垚	*ŋeːw
嶢	*ŋeːw
獟	*ŋeːws
膮	*hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
嘵	*hŋeːw
憢	*hŋeːw
曉	*hŋeːwʔ
皢	*hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws) : semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 堯 (OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		繞
simp.		绕

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rào (rao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu² / jiu⁵
• Northern Min (KCR): niǎu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liáu / jiáu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rào
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rào
    • Wade–Giles: jao⁴
    • Yale: ràu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: raw
    • Palladius: жао (žao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu² / jiu⁵
    • Yale: yíu / yíuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu² / jiu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu² / yiu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³⁵/, /jiːu̯¹³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: niǎu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niau²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liáu
    • Tâi-lô: liáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liau⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiáu
    • Tâi-lô: jiáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiao
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ziau⁵³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 繞 (圍繞)	edit 繞 (繞線)
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐɑu⁵¹/ /ʐau²¹⁴/	/ʐɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/
	Tianjin	/iɑu¹³/ /ʐɑu¹³/	/iɑu⁵³/ /ʐɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/	/ʐɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/iɔ⁴²/	/iɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau⁵³/
	Xining	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ʐɔ⁴⁴²/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʐɔ⁵¹/	/ʐɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nau⁴²/	/nau⁴²/
	Chengdu	/zau⁵³/	/zau¹³/
	Guiyang	/zao²¹³/	/zao⁴²/
	Kunming	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʐɔo²¹²/	/ʐɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʐɔ²⁴/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zau⁵³/	/zau⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiɔ²³/	/ȵiɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/zæ³¹/	/ȵiæ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/zɔ¹³/	/ȵiɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jiɛ³⁵/	/jiɛ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/niɔ³⁵/	/niɔ³⁵/
	Tunxi	/ȵio³¹/	/ȵio³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʐau⁴¹/	/ʐau⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/iaɯ⁴²/	/iaɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋiau³¹/	/ŋiau³¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋieu³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jiu²³/	/kʰiu²³/
	Nanning	/jiu³⁵/	/jiu²²/
	Hong Kong	/jiu¹³/	/kʰiu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/liau⁵³/	/liau²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nau³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/niau²¹/	/niau²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ziau²¹³/	/ziau²¹³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zau²¹³/	/zau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nyewH

Rime
Character	繞
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	人要切
Baxter	nyewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiawH/
Li Rong	/ȵiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ewʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋjaws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繞
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ nyewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ewʔ-s/ (< uvular?)
English	to wind 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	繞
Reading #	2/2
No.	14676
Phonetic component	垚
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	饒
Old Chinese	/*ŋjaws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 繞

1. to entwine
2. to wind around
3. to confuse

Pronunciation 2

trad.		繞
simp.		绕
alternative forms		遶／绕

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rào, rǎo (rao⁴, rao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄠˋ, ㄖㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu² / jiu⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liáu / jiáu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rào
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rào
    • Wade–Giles: jao⁴
    • Yale: ràu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: raw
    • Palladius: жао (žao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǎo
    • Wade–Giles: jao³
    • Yale: rǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rao
    • Palladius: жао (žao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu² / jiu⁵
    • Yale: yíu / yíuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu² / jiu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu² / yiu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³⁵/, /jiːu̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liáu
    • Tâi-lô: liáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liau⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiáu
    • Tâi-lô: jiáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiao
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ziau⁵³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 繞 (圍繞)	edit 繞 (繞線)
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐɑu⁵¹/ /ʐau²¹⁴/	/ʐɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/
	Tianjin	/iɑu¹³/ /ʐɑu¹³/	/iɑu⁵³/ /ʐɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/	/ʐɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/iɔ⁴²/	/iɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau⁵³/
	Xining	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ʐɔ⁴⁴²/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʐɔ⁵¹/	/ʐɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nau⁴²/	/nau⁴²/
	Chengdu	/zau⁵³/	/zau¹³/
	Guiyang	/zao²¹³/	/zao⁴²/
	Kunming	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʐɔo²¹²/	/ʐɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʐɔ²⁴/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zau⁵³/	/zau⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiɔ²³/	/ȵiɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/zæ³¹/	/ȵiæ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/zɔ¹³/	/ȵiɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jiɛ³⁵/	/jiɛ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/niɔ³⁵/	/niɔ³⁵/
	Tunxi	/ȵio³¹/	/ȵio³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʐau⁴¹/	/ʐau⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/iaɯ⁴²/	/iaɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋiau³¹/	/ŋiau³¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋieu³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jiu²³/	/kʰiu²³/
	Nanning	/jiu³⁵/	/jiu²²/
	Hong Kong	/jiu¹³/	/kʰiu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/liau⁵³/	/liau²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nau³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/niau²¹/	/niau²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ziau²¹³/	/ziau²¹³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zau²¹³/	/zau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nyewH

Rime
Character	繞
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	人要切
Baxter	nyewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiawH/
Li Rong	/ȵiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ewʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋjaws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繞
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ nyewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ewʔ-s/ (< uvular?)
English	to wind 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	繞
Reading #	2/2
No.	14676
Phonetic component	垚
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	饒
Old Chinese	/*ŋjaws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 繞

1. to surround
2. to bypass, to make a detour

Pronunciation 3

trad.		繞
simp.		绕

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rào, rǎo (rao⁴, rao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄠˋ, ㄖㄠˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rào
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rào
    • Wade–Giles: jao⁴
    • Yale: ràu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: raw
    • Palladius: жао (žao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǎo
    • Wade–Giles: jao³
    • Yale: rǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rao
    • Palladius: жао (žao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 繞 (圍繞)	edit 繞 (繞線)
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐɑu⁵¹/ /ʐau²¹⁴/	/ʐɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/	/ʐau²¹³/ /iau²¹³/
	Tianjin	/iɑu¹³/ /ʐɑu¹³/	/iɑu⁵³/ /ʐɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/	/ʐɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/iɔ⁴²/	/iɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ʐau⁵³/	/ʐau⁵³/
	Xining	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ʐɔ⁴⁴²/	/ʐɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʐɔ⁵¹/	/ʐɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nau⁴²/	/nau⁴²/
	Chengdu	/zau⁵³/	/zau¹³/
	Guiyang	/zao²¹³/	/zao⁴²/
	Kunming	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʐɔo²¹²/	/ʐɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʐɔ²⁴/	/ʐɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zau⁵³/	/zau⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/ʐɔ⁵³/	/ʐɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiɔ²³/	/ȵiɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/zæ³¹/	/ȵiæ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/zɔ¹³/	/ȵiɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jiɛ³⁵/	/jiɛ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/niɔ³⁵/	/niɔ³⁵/
	Tunxi	/ȵio³¹/	/ȵio³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʐau⁴¹/	/ʐau⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/iaɯ⁴²/	/iaɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋiau³¹/	/ŋiau³¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋieu³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jiu²³/	/kʰiu²³/
	Nanning	/jiu³⁵/	/jiu²²/
	Hong Kong	/jiu¹³/	/kʰiu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/liau⁵³/	/liau²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nau³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/niau²¹/	/niau²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ziau²¹³/	/ziau²¹³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zau²¹³/	/zau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nyewX

Rime
Character	繞
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	而沼切
Baxter	nyewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiawX/
Li Rong	/ȵiɛuX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭɛuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ewʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋjewʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繞
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ nyewX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ewʔ/ (< uvular?)
English	curved
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	繞
Reading #	1/2
No.	14673
Phonetic component	垚
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	擾
Old Chinese	/*ŋjewʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 繞

1. curved
2. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

繞

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. surround
2. return

Readings

• Go-on: にょう (nyō)^{←ねう (neu, historical)}
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぜう (zeu, historical)}
• Kun: まとう (matou, 繞う)、めぐる (meguru, 繞る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 囲繞(いにょう) (inyō), 囲繞(いじょう) (ijō)
• 右繞(うにょう) (unyō)
• 環繞(かんじょう) (kanjō)
• 纏繞(てんじょう) (tenjō)
• 繞囲(にょうい) (nyōi)
• 繞堂(にょうどう) (nyōdō)
• 繞仏(にょうぶつ) (nyōbutsu)
• 結(ゆ)い繞(めぐ)らす (yuimegurasu)
• 繚繞(りょうじょう) (ryōjō)

Noun

繞(にょう) • (nyō) ^{←ねう (neu)?}

1. Chinese character radical that covers the left and bottom of a Chinese character

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 廴繞(いんにょう) (innyō)
• 延繞(えんにょう) (ennyō)
• 乙繞(おつにょう) (otsunyō)
• 凵繞(かんにょう) (kannyō)
• 鬼繞(きにょう) (kinyō)
• 支繞(しにょう) (shinyō), 支繞(えだにょう) (edanyō)
• 之繞(しんにょう) (shinnyō), 辵(しんにょう) (shinnyō), 之繞(しんにゅう) (shinnyū), 辵(しんにゅう) (shinnyū)
• 夊繞(すいにょう) (suinyō)
• 爪繞(そうにょう) (sōnyō)
• 走繞(そうにょう) (sōnyō)
• 人繞(にんにょう) (ninnyō)
• 麥繞(ばくにょう) (bakunyō)
• 文繞(ぶんにょう) (bunnyō)
• 攴繞(ぼくにょう) (bokunyō), 攵繞(ぼくにょう) (bokunyō)

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Korean

Hanja

繞 • (yo) (hangeul 요)

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