霄

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See also: 㲵
霄 U+9704, 霄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9704
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 霅 →

Translingual

Han character

霄 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月火月 (MBFB), four-corner 10227, composition ⿱雨肖)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1374, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42290
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4064, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9704

Chinese

trad. 霄
simp. # 霄
alternative forms 㲵
䨭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 霄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梢 *sreːw
捎 *sreːw, *sew
筲 *sreːw
鞘 *sreːw, *slewɢs
艄 *sreːw
蛸 *sreːw, *sew
髾 *sreːw
輎 *sreːw
旓 *sreːw
弰 *sreːw
鮹 *sreːw, *sew
綃 *sreːw, *sew
颵 *sreːw
莦 *sreːw, *sew
娋 *sreːw, *sreːws
稍 *sreːws
哨 *sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱 *sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲 *sreːws
睄 *sreːws
悄 *sʰewʔ
俏 *sʰews
峭 *sʰews
陗 *sʰews
帩 *sʰews
誚 *zews
消 *sew
宵 *sew
霄 *sew
硝 *sew
銷 *sew
逍 *sew
魈 *sew
痟 *slew
焇 *sew
肖 *slew, *slews
韒 *slewɢs
趙 *l'ewʔ
箾 *seːw, *sleːw
踃 *seːw
削 *slewɢ
矟 *sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sew) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation

Note: sio - in 雲霄／云霄 (“Yunxiao”).
Rime
Character 霄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相邀切
Baxter sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/siaw/
Li
Rong 		/siɛu/
Wang
Li 		/sĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		siu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sjew ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ew/
English sleet

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 霄
Reading # 1/1
No. 13741
Phonetic
component 		肖
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		宵
Old
Chinese 		/*sew/

Definitions

霄

  1. sky; heaven
  2. clouds; mist
  3. sleet
  4. Alternative form of 宵 (“night”)
  5. Alternative form of 消 (xiāo, “to dissolve”)
  6. a surname

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

霄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しょう (shō)←せう (seu, historical)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō)←せう (seu, historical)
  • Kun: そら (sora, 霄)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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Wikisource

霄 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霄: Hán Nôm readings: tiêu

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