雕

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See also: 凋, 鵰, and 彫
雕 U+96D5, 雕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96D5
← 雔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 雖 →

Translingual

Japanese 彫
Simplified 雕
Traditional 雕

Han character

雕 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月口人土 (BROG), four-corner 70214, composition ⿰周隹)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1367, character 58
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42080
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1872, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4102, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+96D5

Chinese

trad. 雕
simp. # 雕
2nd round simp. 刁
alternative forms ⿰刁鸟 2nd round simp. (1981)
彫／雕
琱／雕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (周) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
裯 *tuːw, *dɯw, *do
啁 *tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
禂 *tuːwʔ
綢 *tʰuːw, *dɯw
翢 *tʰuːw, *duːw
錭 *duːw
雕 *tɯːw
凋 *tɯːw
琱 *tɯːw
鯛 *tɯːw
鵰 *tɯːw
彫 *tɯːw
奝 *tɯːw
調 *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
蜩 *dɯːw
惆 *tʰɯw
婤 *tʰɯw, *tjɯw
稠 *dɯw
椆 *dɯw, *tjɯws
周 *tjɯw
輖 *tjɯw
賙 *tjɯw
郮 *tjɯw
晭 *tjɯwʔ
倜 *tʰɯːwɢ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 雕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都聊切
Baxter tew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/teu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/teu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/teu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɛw/
Li
Rong 		/teu/
Wang
Li 		/tieu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		diāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		diu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		diāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tew ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁiw/
English bird of prey

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 雕
Reading # 1/1
No. 17513
Phonetic
component 		周
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		貂
Old
Chinese 		/*tɯːw/

Definitions

雕

  1. to engrave; to inlay; to carve
  2. carving
  3. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 雕 – see 鵰 (“eagle”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 鵰).
Notes:

References

  • “雕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “雕”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 51.

Japanese

Kanji

雕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

雕: Hán Nôm readings: điêu

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