轎

See also: 轿

轎 U+8F4E, 轎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F4E ← 轍 [U+8F4D] CJK Unified Ideographs 轏 → [U+8F4F]

Translingual

Han character

轎 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 十十竹大月 (JJHKB), four-corner 5202₇, composition ⿰車喬)

Derived characters

• 𡅫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1248, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38532
• Dae Jaweon: page 1727, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3556, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8F4E

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Chinese

trad.		轎
simp.		轿

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
驕	*krew
嬌	*krew, *krewʔ, *ɡrew
憍	*krew, *kʰrew
穚	*krew
鷮	*krew, *ɡrew
蕎	*krew, *ɡrew
喬	*krew, *ɡrew
簥	*krew
撟	*krew, *krewʔ
矯	*krewʔ
鱎	*krewʔ
敽	*krewʔ
蟜	*krewʔ, *ɡrew
譑	*krewʔ, *kʰews
蹻	*krewʔ, *kʰew, *ɡrew, *kewɢ, *ɡewɢ
繑	*kʰew
鞽	*kʰrew
趫	*kʰrew, *ɡrew
嘺	*ɡew
橋	*ɡrew
僑	*ɡrew
鐈	*ɡrew
毊	*ɡrew, *qʰrew
轎	*ɡrew, *ɡrews
嶠	*ɡrews
獢	*qʰrew
屩	*kewɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrew, *ɡrews) : semantic 車 + phonetic 喬 (OC *krew, *ɡrew).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 轎

1. bamboo carriage
2. sedan chair; palanquin

   來人啊，備轎！／来人啊，备轿！  ―  Láirén a, bèi jiào!  ―  Men, get my palanquin ready!

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (轎):

• → Vietnamese: kiệu (轎)

Others:

• → Indonesian: kio (“palanquin”)
• → Thai: เกี้ยว (gîao)
• → Zhuang: giuh

References

• “轎”, 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–
• “Query for 轎”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

轎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. palanquin
2. litter

Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)
• Kun: かご (kago), やまかご (yamakago)

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Korean

Hanja

轎 • (gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune–Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

1. palanquin
2. sedan chair

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Vietnamese

Han character

轎: Hán Nôm readings: kiệu

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