鮫

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See also: 鲛
鮫 U+9BAB, 鮫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BAB
← 鮪
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鮬 →

Translingual

Han character

鮫 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火卜金大 (NFYCK), four-corner 20348, composition ⿰魚交)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1469, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46127
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4688, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9BAB

Chinese

trad. 鮫
simp. 鲛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (交) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
烄 *keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮 *pʰreːws
交 *kreːw
郊 *kreːw
茭 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟 *kreːw
鮫 *kreːw
鵁 *kreːw
咬 *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨 *kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞 *kreːwʔ
狡 *kreːwʔ
姣 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校 *kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓 *kreːws
跤 *kʰreːw
頝 *kʰreːw
骹 *kʰraːw
齩 *ŋɡreːwʔ
洨 *ɡreːw
胶 *ɡreːw
效 *ɡreːws
効 *ɡreːws
傚 *ɡreːws
皎 *keːwʔ
恔 *keːwʔ
晈 *keːwʔ
窔 *qeːws
駮 *pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鮫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古肴切
Baxter kaew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠau/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨw/
Li
Rong 		/kau/
Wang
Li 		/kau/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gaau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鮫
Reading # 1/1
No. 6300
Phonetic
component 		交
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		交
Old
Chinese 		/*kreːw/

Definitions

鮫

  1. (literary, or in compounds) porbeagle shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鮫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. shark

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鮫
さめ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
 サメ on Japanese Wikipedia

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *samay.

Pronunciation

Noun

鮫(さめ) or 鮫(サメ) • (same) 

  1. a shark (fish)
    • 1999 July 5, “グレート・ホワイト [Great White]”, in BOOSTER 3, Konami:
      巨(きょ)大(だい)な白(しろ)いサメ。大(おお)きな口(くち)で噛(か)みつかれたら逃(のが)れられない。
      Kyodai na shiroi same. Ōki na kuchi de kamitsukaretara nogarerarenai.
      A giant white shark. It is utterly impossible to get out of its gigantic biting jaw.

Usage notes

  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as サメ.

References

  1. ^ Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鮫 • (gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune–Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鮫: Hán Việt readings: giao

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References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
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