肇

肇 U+8087, 肇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8087 ← 肆 [U+8086] CJK Unified Ideographs 肈 → [U+8088]

Translingual

Han character

肇 (radical 129, 聿+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹大中手 (HKLQ) or 戈大中手 (IKLQ), four-corner 3850₇, composition ⿱𢼄聿)

References

• KangXi: page 972, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29228
• Dae Jaweon: page 1423, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3168, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8087

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		肇
variant forms		肈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肁) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
肁	*dawʔ
肇	*dawʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhào (zhao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tiǎu / tiāu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhào
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: chao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaw
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhào
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu⁶
    • Yale: siuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiǎu
    • Tâi-lô: tiǎu
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiaʊ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāu
    • Tâi-lô: tiāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diau
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiaʊ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiᴇu^X/▼

Rime
Character	肇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	宵 (92)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	治小切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖiawX/
Li Rong	/ȡjɛuX/
Wang Li	/ȡĭɛuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*dawʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	肇
Reading #	1/1
No.	16898
Phonetic component	肁
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	肇
Old Chinese	/*dawʔ/

Definitions

肇

1. ^† to commence; to start; to begin
2. ^† to found
3. ^† to originate

Compounds

• 僧肇
• 肇事 (zhàoshì)
• 肇事者
• 肇因

• 肇基 (zhàojī)
• 肇始 (zhàoshǐ)
• 肇禍／肇祸 (zhàohuò)
• 肇禍者／肇祸者

• 肇端 (zhàoduān)
• 肇論／肇论
• 肇造

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Japanese

Kanji

肇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)
• Kun: はじめる (hajimeru, 肇める)

Proper noun

肇 (hiragana はじめ, rōmaji Hajime)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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