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U+6BEB, 毫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BEB

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 82, +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 難卜口月山 (XYRBU) or 卜口月山 (YRBU), four-corner 00714, composition ⿱⿳)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 593, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16831
  • Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1999, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6BEB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xɑu³⁵/
Harbin /xau²⁴/
Tianjin /xɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /xɔ⁴²/
Qingdao /xɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xau⁴²/
Xi'an /xau²⁴/
Xining /xɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /xɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /xɔ⁵³/
Ürümqi /xɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /xau²¹³/
Chengdu /xau³¹/
Guiyang /xao²¹/
Kunming /xɔ³¹/
Nanjing /xɔo²⁴/
Hefei /xɔ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xau¹¹/
Pingyao /xɔ¹³/
Hohhot /xɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɔ²³/
Suzhou /ɦæ¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦɜ³¹/
Hui Shexian /xɔ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /xə⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xau¹³/
Xiangtan /ɦaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /hɑu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /hau¹¹/
Taoyuan /ho¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hou²¹/
Nanning /hu²¹/
Hong Kong /hou²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ho³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ho⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /au²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /hau⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter haw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaw/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑu/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
háo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
háo
Middle
Chinese
‹ haw ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁaw/
English fine animal hair

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 # 1/1
No. 3748
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːw/

Definitions

  1. fine hair
  2. writing brush
  3. (especially in the negative) slightest bit; least amount
  4. a measure of length, equal to 100 micrometres
  5. milli- (SI unit prefix)
  6. a unit of weight equal to one tenth of a (, “cash”)
  7. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) 0.0001 dollars, yuan, etc.; 0.01 cents, fen, etc. (currency unit)
  8. (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) one tenth of a yuan or dollar; 10 cents; dime
      ―  gau2 man1 gau2 hou4 gau2   ―  9 dollars and 99 cents
      ―  luk6 hou4 gei2   ―  60-something cents

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠤ (qou)
  • Thai: เครา (krao)

See also

SI prefix
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(wēi)
Chinese historical small numbers
Value Character Notes
10-1 (fèn) Still in use. SI prefix deci-.
10-2 (), () Still in use. SI prefix centi-.
10-3 (háo) Still in use. SI prefix milli-. Also (máo).
10-4  / () Rarely used today.
(miǎo) Obsolete, only in ancient texts.
10-5 () Rarely used today.
10-6 (wēi) Still in use. SI prefix micro-.
10-7  / (xiān) Obsolete.
10-8 (shā) Obsolete.
10-9  / (chén) Obsolete.  / () and (nài) are used for nano-.
10-10 (āi) Obsolete. In modern use, the character for angstrom (10-10 m).
10-11 (miǎo) Obsolete.
10-12 () Obsolete. () is used for SI prefix pico-.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ごう ()
  • Kan-on: こう ()
  • Kun: すこし (sukoshi, 毫し)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(ho) (hangeul , revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hào

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