遙

See also: 遥

Translingual

Traditional	遙
Shinjitai (extended)	遥
Simplified	遥

Han character

遙 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人山 (YBOU), four-corner 3730₇, composition ⿺辶䍃)

Derived characters

• 𢷫, 𦾾 (Only for Taiwan character forms as mainland China characters contain 遥 instead)

Related characters

• 遥 (Simplified Chinese and Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1262, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39035
• Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 3873, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9059

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Chinese

trad.		遙/遥
simp.		遥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
搖	*lews, *lew
遙	*lew
瑤	*lew
徭	*lew
鰩	*lew
媱	*lew
傜	*lew
颻	*lew
窰	*luː
愮	*lew
鷂	*lew, *lews
榣	*lew
嗂	*lew
猺	*lew
謠	*lew
鎐	*ʔsloːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iâu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): iao⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
    • Wade–Giles: yao²
    • Yale: yáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu⁴
    • Yale: yìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâu
    • Tâi-lô: iâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iau¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iau²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: iao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: yew

Rime
Character	遙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘昭切
Baxter	yew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/jæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaw/
Li Rong	/iɛu/
Wang Li	/jĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遙
Reading #	1/1
No.	14705
Phonetic component	謠
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 遙

1. distant; far away

   • 今日交通文軌，登臨不覺亞歐遙 [MSC, trad.]
     今日交通文轨，登临不觉亚欧遥 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1908, Zhang Zhidong, Couplet written for tower constructed near the site of the Yellow Crane Tower

     jīnrì jiāotōng wénguǐ, dēnglín bùjué Yà Ōu yáo [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	遥
Kyūjitai	遙

Kanji

遙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 遥)

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Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)}
• Kun: はるか (haruka, 遙か)

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Korean

Hanja

遙 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 遙 (diêu, dao, dìu)

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