鮫

See also: 鲛

鮫 U+9BAB, 鮫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BAB ← 鮪 [U+9BAA] CJK Unified Ideographs 鮬 → [U+9BAC]

Translingual

Han character

鮫 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火卜金大 (NFYCK), four-corner 2034₈, composition ⿰魚交)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1469, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46127
• Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4688, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9BAB

Chinese

trad.		鮫
simp.		鲛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
烄	*keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮	*pʰreːws
交	*kreːw
郊	*kreːw
茭	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟	*kreːw
鮫	*kreːw
鵁	*kreːw
咬	*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨	*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞	*kreːwʔ
狡	*kreːwʔ
姣	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校	*kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓	*kreːws
跤	*kʰreːw
頝	*kʰreːw
骹	*kʰraːw
齩	*ŋɡreːwʔ
洨	*ɡreːw
胶	*ɡreːw
效	*ɡreːws
効	*ɡreːws
傚	*ɡreːws
皎	*keːwʔ
恔	*keːwʔ
晈	*keːwʔ
窔	*qeːws
駮	*pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāo (jiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiao
    • Wade–Giles: chiao¹
    • Yale: jyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau
    • Palladius: цзяо (czjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaau¹
    • Yale: gāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kau
    • Tâi-lô: kau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kau⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kaew

Rime
Character	鮫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古肴切
Baxter	kaew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/kau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨw/
Li Rong	/kau/
Wang Li	/kau/
Bernard Karlgren	/kau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kreːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鮫
Reading #	1/1
No.	6300
Phonetic component	交
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	交
Old Chinese	/*kreːw/

Definitions

鮫

1. (literary, or in compounds) porbeagle shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

Synonyms

• 鯊魚／鲨鱼 (shāyú)

Compounds

• 琵琶鮫／琵琶鲛
• 銀鮫／银鲛 (yínjiāo)
• 鋸鮫／锯鲛 (jùjiāo)
• 長尾鮫／长尾鲛
• 青鮫／青鲛 (qīngjiāo)
• 馬鮫魚／马鲛鱼
• 騾鮫／骡鲛
• 鲛人
• 鮫人／鲛人
• 鮫函／鲛函
• 鮫綃／鲛绡

 

Japanese

Kanji

鮫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. shark

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: さめ (same, 鮫); みずち (mizuchi, 鮫)^{←みづち (miduti, 鮫, historical)}

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鮫
さめ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *samay.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さめ [sàmé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sa̠me̞]

Noun

鮫(さめ) or 鮫(サメ) • (same) 

1. a shark (fish)
   • 1999 July 5, “グレート・ホワイト [Great White]”, in BOOSTER 3, Konami:

     巨(きょ)大(だい)な白(しろ)いサメ。大(おお)きな口(くち)で噛(か)みつかれたら逃(のが)れられない。

     Kyodai na shiroi same. Ōki na kuchi de kamitsukaretara nogarerarenai.

     A giant white shark. It is utterly impossible to get out of its gigantic biting jaw.

Usage notes

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as サメ.

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

鮫: Hán Việt readings: giao

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