燥

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燥 U+71E5, 燥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71E5
← 燤
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 燦 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

燥 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火口口木 (FRRD), four-corner 96894, composition ⿰火喿)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 684, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19467
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1097, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2240, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+71E5

Chinese

trad. 燥
simp. # 燥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 燥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (喿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藻 *ʔsaːwʔ
澡 *ʔslaːwʔ
璪 *ʔsaːwʔ
繰 *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁 *ʔsaːws
趮 *ʔsaːws
操 *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧 *sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆 *sʰaːwʔ
鄵 *sʰaːws
鐰 *zaːw, *sʰaw
臊 *saːw, *saːws
鱢 *saːw
燥 *saːwʔ, *saːws
噪 *saːws
髞 *saːws
喿 *saːws
譟 *saːws
劋 *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾 *soːwʔ, *srow

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *saːwʔ, *saːws) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 喿 (OC *saːws).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • sò/sò͘ - literary;
  • sò - vernacular (Quanzhou).
Rime
Character 燥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇老切
Baxter sawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sawX/
Li
Rong 		/sɑuX/
Wang
Li 		/sɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sou2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燥 燥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sào zào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sawH › ‹ sawX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.sˁawʔ-s/ /*C.sˁawʔ/
English dry dry

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 燥 燥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16580 16581
Phonetic
component 		喿 喿
Rime
group 		宵 宵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		㛮
Old
Chinese 		/*saːwʔ/ /*saːws/

Definitions

燥

  1. dry; parched; arid
    乾燥／干燥  ―  gānzào  ―  dry
  2. † Alternative form of 躁 (“quick-tempered; anxious”)
    急燥  ―  jízào  ―  anxious
  3. (traditional Chinese medicine, Southern Min, of food or medicine) heaty
  4. (Mainland China Hokkien) to absorb (moisture)
  5. (Xiamen Hokkien) object that can absorb moisture
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (燥):
  • → Japanese: 燥(そう) (sō)
  • → Korean: 조(燥) (jo)
  • → Vietnamese: táo (燥)

Others:

  • → Vietnamese: ráo (𫧭, “be dried up”)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

燥

  1. minced meat

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

燥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. parch; dry up

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

燥 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

  1. (마를 조, mareul): to be dry

Vietnamese

Han character

燥: Hán Nôm readings: táo, ráo

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