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U+5DE7, 巧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DE7

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 48, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一一女尸 (MMVS), four-corner 11127, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 325, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8721
  • Dae Jaweon: page 628, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 412, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5DE7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰruːʔ, *kʰruːs) : semantic + phonetic (OC *kʰluːʔ)

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • khá - vernacular (“rare but exquisite; fake; cunning”);
  • khiáu - vernacular (“ingenious; cunning; skillful; pretty”);
  • kháu - literary.
Note:
  • ka2 - vernacular;
  • kiao2/kiou2 - literary (kiou5 - Chaozhou).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (90) (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II II
Fanqie
Baxter khaewX khaewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠauX/ /kʰˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰᵚauX/ /kʰᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰaɨwX/ /kʰaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Wang
Li
/kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiǎo qiào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
haau2 haau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ khæwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁruʔ/
English artful

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7410 7411
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰruːʔ/ /*kʰruːs/

Definitions

  1. skill; technique
  2. ingenious; skillful
  3. hypocritical; fake; cunning
  4. exquisite; elaborate
  5. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) pretty; beautiful
  6. opportune; coincidental
    真是  ―  Zhēnshì tài qiǎo le!  ―  What a coincidence!
  7. fortunately; by chance
  8. (Hefei Mandarin) cheap
  9. () (telegraphy) the eighteenth day of a month
  10. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
alternative forms


𪡀
𫣹

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Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (Cantonese) opportune; coincidental

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation borrowed from Mandarin (hǎo), tone from Cantonese (hou2).

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, leetspeak or sarcastic) Alternative form of
    [Cantonese]  ―  haau2 wai1 wai1   ―  very awesome (sarcastic)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. clever, skillful

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
たく(み)
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Proper noun

(たくみ) (Takumi

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Proper noun

(こう) (かう (kau)?

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 공교할 (gonggyohal gyo))

  1. Hanja form? of (skillful, ingenious, clever).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: xảo

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