鼇

See also: 鰲 and 鳌

Translingual

Han character

鼇 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+10, 23 strokes, cangjie input 土大口難山 (GKRXU), four-corner 4871₇, composition ⿱敖黽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1524, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48301
• Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4770, character 20
• Unihan data for U+9F07

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
熬	*ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖	*ŋaːw
嗷	*ŋaːw
螯	*ŋaːw
聱	*ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲	*ŋaːw
遨	*ŋaːw
獒	*ŋaːw
滶	*ŋaːw
蔜	*ŋaːw
鷔	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇	*ŋaːw
謷	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅	*ŋaːw
嗸	*ŋaːw
摮	*ŋaːw
嫯	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲	*ŋaːws
磝	*ŋraːw

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鼇 – see 鰲 (“large mythological sea turtle; Ao”). (This character is a variant form of 鰲).

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Japanese

Kanji

鼇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. great sea turtle

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: おおがめ (ōgame, 鼇)^{←おほがめ (ofogame, 鼇, historical)}; すっぽん (suppon, 鼇)

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Korean

Hanja

鼇 (eum 오 (o))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼇: Hán Nôm readings: ngao

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