釣

See also: 钓

Translingual

Han character

釣 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金心戈 (CPI), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰釒勺) (right side of character: 勺)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1296, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40172
• Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4173, character 2
• Unihan data for U+91E3

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Chinese

trad.		釣
simp.		钓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釣
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pleːwɢs) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diào (diao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): diu³

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): iau¹

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tiau
• Eastern Min (BUC): diéu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiò / tiàu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dion³ / diên³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diào
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diào
    • Wade–Giles: tiao⁴
    • Yale: dyàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diaw
    • Palladius: дяо (djao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: diu³
    • Yale: diu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: diu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: diu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːu̯³³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: iau¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iau³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiau
    • Hakka Romanization System: diau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: diau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ti̯au̯⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diéu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛu²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiò / tiàu
    • Tâi-lô: tiò / tiàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dioix, diaux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tio²¹/, /tiau²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tio⁴¹/, /tiau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tio²¹/, /tiau²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tio¹¹/, /tiau¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɤ²¹/, /tiau²¹/

Note:

• tiò - vernacular;
• tiàu - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dion³ / diên³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiòⁿ / tièⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tĩõ²¹³/, /tĩẽ²¹³/

Note:

• dion3 - Shantou;
• diên3 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: tewH

Rime
Character	釣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	多嘯切
Baxter	tewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/teuH/
Pan Wuyun	/teuH/
Shao Rongfen	/teuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛwH/
Li Rong	/teuH/
Wang Li	/tieuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tieuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	diu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]ˤewk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pleːwɢs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	釣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diào
Middle Chinese	‹ tewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]ˁewk-s/
English	to angle
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	釣
Reading #	1/1
No.	11183
Phonetic component	勺
Rime group	豹
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	弔
Old Chinese	/*pleːwɢs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 釣

1. to fish; to angle
2. fishhook
3. to go after; to tempt; to lure

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

釣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. fishing, angling, catching
2. change, small cash

Readings

• Go-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kun: つり (tsuri, 釣り); つり (tsuri, 釣); つる (tsuru, 釣る, Jōyō); つるし (tsurushi, 釣るし); つるし (tsurushi, 釣し); つるす (tsurusu, 釣るす); つるす (tsurusu, 釣す)

Compounds

• 魚釣(さかなつ)り (sakanatsuri): fishing, angling, catching fish

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 釣 (điếu)

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