邵

邵 U+90B5, 邵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90B5 ← 邴 [U+90B4] CJK Unified Ideographs 邶 → [U+90B6]

Translingual

Han character

邵 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 尸口弓中 (SRNL) or 難尸口弓中 (XSRNL), four-corner 1762₇, composition ⿰召阝)

Derived characters

• 𰞸, 𪹃, 𢇊, 綤, 𬥃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1270, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39343
• Dae Jaweon: page 1769, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3764, character 9
• Unihan data for U+90B5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*taːw
舠	*taːw
朷	*taːw, *moːɡ
叨	*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒	*taːwʔ, *taːws
到	*taːws
菿	*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀	*deːw
鳭	*rteːw, *teːw
灱	*hreːw
菬	*sdew, *tjewʔ
超	*tʰew
怊	*tʰew, *tʰjew
欩	*tʰew
召	*dews, *djews
昭	*tjew
招	*tjew
鉊	*tjew
沼	*tjewʔ
照	*tjews
詔	*tjews
炤	*tjews
弨	*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧	*tʰjewʔ
韶	*djew
佋	*djew, *djewʔ
軺	*djew, *lew
玿	*djew
柖	*djew
紹	*djewʔ
袑	*djewʔ
綤	*djewʔ
邵	*djews
劭	*djews
卲	*djews
刁	*teːw
芀	*teːw, *deːw
貂	*teːw
蛁	*teːw
迢	*deːw
苕	*deːw
髫	*deːw
岧	*deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djews): phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews) + semantic 阝.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		邵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shào (shao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): seu

  (Hailu, HRS): shau^ˇ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sau⁴

• Eastern Min (BUC): siêu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sieo⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siō

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao⁶ / siou⁶ / siên⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shào
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shào
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴
    • Yale: shàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaw
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu⁶
    • Yale: siuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: seu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shau^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃau¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sau⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siêu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛu²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sieo⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sā̤u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieu¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sieo⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieu²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siō
    • Tâi-lô: siō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sioi
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sio²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sio⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sio²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sio³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɤ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao⁶ / siou⁶ / siên⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siău / siŏu / siēⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau³⁵/, /siou³⁵/, /sĩẽ¹¹/

Note:

• siao6 - Shantou;
• siou6 - Chaozhou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zau
    • MiniDict: zau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyewH

Rime
Character	邵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	寔照切
Baxter	dzyewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiawH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]aw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djews/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shào
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]aw-s/
English	(place name)
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	邵
Reading #	1/1
No.	2149
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	邵
Old Chinese	/*djews/

Definitions

邵

1. Name of various places in Ancient China.
2. short for 邵陽／邵阳 (Shàoyáng, “Shaoyang”)
3. (～族) Thao people (a Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group, from Thao Thau)
4. alternative form of 劭 (shào, “good; eminent”)

   • 伋徒患德之不邵，不病毛鬢之不茂也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     伋徒患德之不邵，不病毛鬓之不茂也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 3rd century, 孔叢子

     Jí tú huàn dé zhī bù shào, bù bìng máo bìn zhī bù mào yě. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. a surname

   邵逸夫  ―  Shào Yìfū  ―  Run Run Shaw (Hong Kong filmmaker)

Compounds

• 周邵
• 懿邵
• 新邵 (Xīnshào)
• 方邵
• 清邵
• 深邵
• 邵人 (Shàorén)
• 邵伯 (Shàobó)
• 邵伯樹 / 邵伯树
• 邵伯訟棠 / 邵伯讼棠
• 邵侯
• 邵侯瓜
• 邵公紙 / 邵公纸
• 邵南
• 邵圃
• 邵家樓 / 邵家楼 (Shàojiālóu)
• 邵平圃
• 邵平園 / 邵平园
• 邵平瓜
• 邵平田
• 邵族 (shàozú)
• 邵杜
• 邵東 / 邵东 (Shàodōng)
• 邵武 (Shàowǔ)
• 邵氏 (siu⁶ si⁶) (Cantonese)
• 邵父
• 邵瓜
• 邵生
• 邵美
• 邵語 / 邵语 (Shàoyǔ)
• 邵陽 / 邵阳 (Shàoyáng)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		邵
alternative forms		耀

Pronunciation

• Eastern Min (BUC): siêu

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• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siêu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛu²⁴²/

Definitions

邵 (Eastern Min)

1. to praise; to compliment; to admire; to brag
2. to admire; to envy
3. to indulge in; to be addicted to

References

• “邵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “邵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 207.

Japanese

Kanji

邵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぜう (zeu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

邵 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

邵: Hán Nôm readings: nghẹo, thiệt

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References

• Nom Foundation