囂

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See also: 嚣
囂 U+56C2, 囂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56C2
← 囁
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 囃 →

Translingual

Han character

囂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口口一金口 (RRMCR), four-corner 66668, composition ⿳吅頁吅)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4616
  • Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 706, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+56C2

Chinese

trad. 囂
simp. 嚣
alternative forms 嚻
𠽸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 囂
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (囂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
囂 *ŋaːw, *hŋraw
虈 *hŋraw

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 㗊 (“four mouths; to clamor”) + 頁 (“head”) – a clamoring crowd.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • hiau - literary;
  • hau - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 囂
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu²¹/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɕiau²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiau²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /siɔo³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕiæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕiɔ³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕiau³³/
Xiangtan /ɕiaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hiau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hiu⁵³/
Nanning /hiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hiu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hiau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hiau³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hiau²³/
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 囂
Reading # 2/2
No. 13681
Phonetic
component 		囂
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		嚻
Old
Chinese 		/*hŋraw/

Definitions

囂

  1. to be loud; to be noisy; to clamor
  2. arrogant

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 囂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		áo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaw/
English clamor, many voices; arrogant

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 囂
Reading # 1/2
No. 13680
Phonetic
component 		囂
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

囂

  1. (literary) Alternative form of 隞 (Áo, “Ao (capital of the Shang Dynasty)”)

Compounds

References

  • “囂”, 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), “嚣”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 260.

Japanese

Kanji

囂

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Noisy, talking loudly without thinking about people around you.[1]

Readings

References

  1. ^ Akiyasu Tōdō (2002) 漢字源, →ISBN: “囂”

Korean

Hanja

囂 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune–Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

  1. clamorous, noisy

Vietnamese

Han character

囂: Hán Nôm readings: hiu

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