敖

敖 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土尸人大 (GSOK) or 手尸人大 (QSOK), four-corner 4824₀, composition ⿰⿱士方攵)

1. leisurely
2. a surname

• 獓 𫍵 傲 厫 骜 𠞪 𠢕 𪧜 㜜 㟼 㠂 㾲 嗷 嗸 嫯 嶅 廒 慠 滶 獒 隞 𡏼 𢕟 𢳆 𪵧 㥿 摮 熬 璈 遨 𢧴 𣊁 𣘢 𤘒 𪉑 𫆰 磝 𥂢 𥨆 𬑞 聱 蔜 螯 𦪈 𧑃 謷 謸 贅 (赘) 鳌 𨄨 𨅚 𨎞 䦋 鏊 𨫼 䫨 𩕀 𩘮 𩪕 𫗺 𫘀 䮯 驁 𩮯 𩱏 䵅 鰲 鷔 𪍮 鼇 𪙠

• 奢

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 471, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13226
• Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1456, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6556

• Unihan data for U+FA90

Historical forms of the character 敖
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally 𫠤, a pictogram (象形) depicting a person 人 with a headress similar to 屮 and then 丰 and 出 (but unrelated to these character). Later, the person was stylized as a shape similar to 夭 (a young man walking vigorously); 攴 was added next to the pictogram perhaps to convey the concept of authority, making it a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and transforming it into 𢾍; the man under the headress then become stylized as 方 (or 万 in some fonts). See also 免, 冒, and 美.

As an alternative, according to 季旭昇 Ji Xusheng, it represents a man walking and travelling in the countryside, symbolized by a sprout 屮 on top. See also the original form of 每.

Shuowen Jiezi erroneously interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 出 (“leave”) + 放 (“release”) due to the later stylization.

敖

1. (literary) Original form of 遨 (áo, “to ramble; to play about”).
2. ^† to tease; to joke; to flirt with
3. ^† to make an uproar
4. ^† someone who has not assumed the throne, and thus has no posthumous name, due to dying early
5. ^† four-chi-high dog
6. ^† Original form of 廒 (áo, “granary”).
7. ^† Alternative form of 螯 (áo, “pincer; nipper; claw”)
8. ^† Alternative form of 熬 (“to cook on slow fire; to boil”)
9. (historical) An ancient place in the northwest of today Xingyang, Henan.
10. a surname

敖

1. ^† Alternative form of 傲 (“haughty; arrogant; conceited”)

• “敖”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. play
2. be proud

From Middle Chinese 敖 (MC ngaw); compare Mandarin 敖 (áo):

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 敖 (MC ngawH); compare Mandarin 敖 (ào):

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: あそぶ (asobu, 敖ぶ)、おごる (ogoru, 敖る)

敖 (eum 오 (o))

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敖: Hán Nôm readings: ngào

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