騷

See also: 骚

Translingual

Traditional	騷
Shinjitai	騒
Simplified	骚

Han character

騷 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸火水戈戈 (SFEII), four-corner 7733₆, composition ⿰馬蚤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1443, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44935
• Dae Jaweon: page 1967, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4567, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9A37

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Chinese

trad.		騷
simp.		骚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 騷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
蚤	*ʔsuːʔ
慅	*sʰuːʔ, *suː
騷	*suː
搔	*suː
鰠	*suː
溞	*suː
颾	*suː
瘙	*suːs
瑵	*ʔsruːʔ
糔	*suʔ
鼜	*sʰɯːwɢ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sāo (sao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sau / so / so͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sao
    • Wade–Giles: sao¹
    • Yale: sāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
    • Palladius: сао (sao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
    • Tâi-lô: sau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sau⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
    • Tâi-lô: so
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soy
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
    • Tâi-lô: soo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/

Note:

• sau - vernacular;
• so/so͘ - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: saw

Rime
Character	騷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇遭切
Baxter	saw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/saw/
Li Rong	/sɑu/
Wang Li	/sɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/sɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	騷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sāo
Middle Chinese	‹ saw ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁu/
English	disturb
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	騷
Reading #	1/1
No.	16554
Phonetic component	蚤
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	騷
Old Chinese	/*suː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 騷

1. to harass; to bother; to annoy; to disturb; to agitate
2. sad; grieved
3. coquettish; flirty; provocative
4. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 臊 (sāo, “having the smell like one of urine”).

Etymology 2

From English show.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 騷

1. (Cantonese) show

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Japanese

Shinjitai	騒
Kyūjitai	騷

Kanji

騷

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

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: さわぐ (sawagu, 騷ぐ)

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Korean

Hanja

騷 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 騷 (tao)

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