嘲

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嘲 U+5632, 嘲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5632
← 嘱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嘳 →

Translingual

Han character

嘲 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口十十月 (RJJB), four-corner 67020, composition ⿰口朝)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 207, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4254
  • Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5632

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嘲
alternative forms 謿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘲 *ʔr'eːw
廟 *mrews
朝 *ʔr'ew, *r'ew
潮 *r'ew

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔr'eːw) : semantic 口 + phonetic 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew).

Pronunciation 1

Note: zhāo - literary variant.
Rime
Character 嘲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 陟交切
Baxter traew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʈˠau/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȶau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈaɨw/
Li
Rong 		/ȶau/
Wang
Li 		/ȶau/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȶau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zaau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嘲
Reading # 1/1
No. 1305
Phonetic
component 		朝
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		嘲
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔr'eːw/

Definitions

嘲

  1. to ridicule; to deride; to scorn; to jeer at
  2. (literary) to chant; to recite poetry with a cadence

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

嘲

  1. (literary) twitter (of birds)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

嘲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
嘲
ちょう
Grade: S
goon

/teu/ → /t͡seu/ → /t͡ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese 嘲 (MC traew).

Affix

嘲(ちょう) • (chō) ←てう (teu)?

  1. ridicule, insult, scorn, sneer

Derived terms

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

嘲 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘲: Hán Nôm readings: trào, chào, ràu, nhào, rầu, thều, trều

  1. Nôm form of chào (“hello”).

Compounds

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