徭

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徭 U+5FAD, 徭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FAD
← 徬
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 微 →
徭 U+FA85, 徭
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA85
← 彩
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 惘 →

Translingual

Han character

徭 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月人山 (HOBOU), four-corner 27272, composition ⿰彳䍃)

  1. conscript labor, compulsory labor

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 370, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10201
  • Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 839, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5FAD

Chinese

trad. 徭
simp. # 徭
alternative forms 傜
繇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (謠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
搖 *lews, *lew
遙 *lew
瑤 *lew
徭 *lew
鰩 *lew
媱 *lew
傜 *lew
颻 *lew
窰 *luː
愮 *lew
鷂 *lew, *lews
榣 *lew
嗂 *lew
猺 *lew
謠 *lew
鎐 *ʔsloːwɢ

Etymology

Perhaps related to Burmese လုပ် (lup, “to do, work”).[1]

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 徭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yáo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yew ›
Old
Chinese 		/*law/
English public or military service

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 徭
Reading # 1/1
No. 14707
Phonetic
component 		謠
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		遙
Old
Chinese 		/*lew/
Notes 傜分化字見韓非子，
廣韻集韻只作傜此見玉篇

Definitions

徭

  1. (literary) forced labor; corvee
    徭役  ―  yáoyì  ―  corvee
  2. † Alternative form of 瑤／瑶 (yáo, “Yao people”)

Compounds

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UP Finals (> 86. to Work, Cultivate)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 40

Japanese

Kanji

徭

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): よう (yō)
  • Kun: えだち (edachi)

Korean

Hanja

徭 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

徭: Hán Nôm readings: diêu

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References

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