鎬

See also: 镐

鎬 U+93AC, 鎬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93AC ← 鎫 [U+93AB] CJK Unified Ideographs 鎭 → [U+93AD]

Translingual

Han character

鎬 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金卜口月 (CYRB), four-corner 8012₇, composition ⿰釒高)

1. stove
2. bright

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1318, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40741
• Dae Jaweon: page 1818, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4243, character 11
• Unihan data for U+93AC

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Chinese

trad.		鎬
simp.		镐

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	*kaːw, *kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞	*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗	*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hào (hao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hào
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴
    • Yale: hàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou⁶
    • Yale: houh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
    • Tâi-lô: hō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: hawX

Rime
Character	鎬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡老切
Baxter	hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦawX/
Li Rong	/ɣɑuX/
Wang Li	/ɣɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鎬
Reading #	1/1
No.	3751
Phonetic component	高
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晧
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːwʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鎬

1. Haojing (one of the two settlements comprising the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty)
2. an ancient place name

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎo (gao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): káu / hō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǎo
    • Wade–Giles: kao³
    • Yale: gǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gao
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gou²
    • Yale: góu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káu
    • Tâi-lô: káu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kao
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kau⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
    • Tâi-lô: hō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ho²²/

Note: káu - vernacular (俗).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鎬

1. pickaxe; pick

Synonyms

• 洋鎬／洋镐 (yánggǎo)
• (Xiang) 一齒／一齿

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Japanese

Glyph origin

しのぎ (shinogi, “grind line”)

国訓(こっくん) (kokkun); hence perhaps an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 釒 (“metal”) + semantic 高 (“high”). Compare 縞(しま) (shima, “stripe”).

Kanji

鎬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: なべ (nabe, 鎬)、しのぎ (shinogi, 鎬)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鎬
しのぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鎬 – see the following entry.

【しのぎ】 [noun] grind line (bevel on a blade)

(This term, 鎬, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

鎬 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 高 (cao)

Han character

鎬: Hán Việt readings: cảo, hạo (下(hạ)老(lão)切(thiết))
鎬: Nôm readings: cào

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