肖

Translingual

Han character

肖 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火月 (FB), four-corner 9022₇, composition ⿱小⺼(TGHJK))

Derived characters

• 俏 陗 誚 (诮) 捎 哨 峭 帩 消 悄 弰 娋 綃 (绡) 琑 梢 焇 硝 睄 銷 (销) 稍 矟 蛸 艄 輎 踃 鞘 韒 鮹 削 莦 宵 筲 霄 髾 屑 痟 逍 趙 (赵) 魈 颵 旓

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 973, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29263
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2045, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8096

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Chinese

trad.		肖
simp. #		肖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 肖
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiào (xiao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ciu³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siau / siàu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiào
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siào
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao⁴
    • Yale: syàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiaw
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ciu³
    • Yale: chiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsiu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qiu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau / siàu
    • Tâi-lô: siau / siàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaw, siaux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴/, /siau²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³/, /siau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴/, /siau²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴/, /siau¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴/, /siau²¹/

Note:

• siau - vernacular (俗);
• siàu - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: sjewH

Rime
Character	肖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	私妙切
Baxter	sjewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siawH/
Li Rong	/siɛuH/
Wang Li	/sĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ew-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slews/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肖
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiào
Middle Chinese	‹ sjewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ew-s/
English	resemble
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	肖
Reading #	2/2
No.	13755
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𥬇
Old Chinese	/*slews/
Notes	從肉小會消瘠意， 小非聲，與後起從肉肖聲翟聲字同源

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 肖

1. to resemble
2. to imitate
3. (rare) a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

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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/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肖
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiāo
Middle Chinese	‹ sjew ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ew/
English	disappear
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	肖
Reading #	1/2
No.	13754
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*slew/
Notes	見莊子史記

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 肖

1. to decline
2. a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 肖 – see 蕭. (This character is the second-round simplified form of 蕭).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

肖

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kun: にる (niru, 肖る)、かたどる (katadoru, 肖る)、あやかる (ayakaru, 肖る)

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Korean

Hanja

肖 • (cho, so) (hangeul 초, 소, revised cho, so, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, so, Yale cho, so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 肖 (tiêu, tiếu)

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