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See also:
U+816C, 腬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-816C

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月弓竹木 (BNHD), composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 989, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29699
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2100, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+816C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms Cantonese
Cantonese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ml'us, *mlju) : semantic (meat) + phonetic (OC *mlju).

Etymology

Possibly related to (OC *mlju, “soft”), (OC *njuɡ, “meat”) (Liu, 1999b).

Pronunciation


Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (38) (12)
Final () (136) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyuw nrjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨu/ /ɳɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiu/ /ɳiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiəu/ /niəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵuw/ /ɳuwH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiu/ /niuH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭəu/ /nĭəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ə̯u/ /ni̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
róu niù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jau4 nau6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8823 8835
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ml'us/ /*mlju/

Definitions

  1. good meat; fatty meat
  2. (Cantonese) heavy; filling; too greasy or sweet
  3. (Cantonese) slow; sluggish
  4. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) wrinkled but soft
    [Hokkien, trad. and simp.]
    saⁿ jio̍h jio̍h [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds