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Translingual
Han character
杪 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木火竹 (DFH), four-corner 49920, composition ⿰木少)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 513, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14490
- Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1168, character 9
- Unihan data for U+676A
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 觘
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*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
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| 抄
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*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
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| 鈔
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*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
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| 訬
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*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
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| 炒
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*sʰroːʔ
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| 吵
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*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
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| 耖
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*sm̥ʰreːws
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| 仯
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*sm̥ʰreːws
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| 眇
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*mewʔ
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| 渺
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*mewʔ
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| 杪
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*mewʔ
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| 秒
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*mewʔ
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| 篎
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*mewʔ, *mews
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| 妙
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*mews
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| 玅
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*mews
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| 釥
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*sm̥ʰewʔ
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| 小
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*smewʔ
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| 少
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*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
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| 麨
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*m̥ʰjewʔ
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| 尠
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*senʔ, *smos
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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杪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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miǎo
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ mjiewX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ewʔ/
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| English
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the utmost end
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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杪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13697
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Phonetic
component
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小
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Rime
group
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宵
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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眇
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Old
Chinese
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/*mewʔ/
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Definitions
杪
- (literary) tip of a branch; top of a tree
- (literary) end (of a month, year, or season)
- (literary) minute; slight
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
杪
(Hyōgai kanji)
Readings
Noun
| For pronunciation and definitions of 杪 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 杪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
杪 (eum 초 (cho))
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Vietnamese
Han character
杪: Hán Nôm readings: diễu, miểu
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References