熬

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熬 U+71AC, 熬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71AC
← 熫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 熭 →

Translingual

Han character

熬 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土大火 (GKF) or 手大火 (QKF) or 難手大火 (XQKF), four-corner 58334, composition ⿱敖灬)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 680, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1092, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2226, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+71AC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 熬
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 (敖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
熬 *ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖 *ŋaːw
嗷 *ŋaːw
螯 *ŋaːw
聱 *ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲 *ŋaːw
遨 *ŋaːw
獒 *ŋaːw
滶 *ŋaːw
蔜 *ŋaːw
鷔 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇 *ŋaːw
謷 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅 *ŋaːw
嗸 *ŋaːw
摮 *ŋaːw
嫯 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲 *ŋaːws
磝 *ŋraːw

Etymology 1

trad. 熬
simp. # 熬
alternative forms 𤏺
𤎅
敖

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ŋaw (“to fry; to roast”); cognate with Tibetan རྔོ (rngo, “to fry”), Chepang ङाव्‌सा (ŋaw, “to fry; to parch; to roast”), Tangut 𗲔 (*ŋur¹, “pancake”) (STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Jacques, 2014).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ngâu - vernacular;
  • gô/gô͘ - literary.
Note: hao5 - in 熬夜.
Rime
Character 熬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五勞切
Baxter ngaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋɑu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋɑu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋaw/
Li
Rong 		/ŋɑu/
Wang
Li 		/ŋɑu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ŋɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		áo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngou4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 熬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		áo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋˁaw/
English fry, roast (v.)

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 熬
Reading # 1/2
No. 38
Phonetic
component 		敖
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		敖
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

熬

  1. to cook something on slow fire; to extract something using heat
  2. (figurative) to endure
  3. a surname: Ao
Synonyms
  • (to cook something on slow fire): (Hokkien) 液

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 熬
simp. # 熬
alternative forms 爊
𤏶

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 熬
Reading # 2/2
No. 57
Phonetic
component 		敖
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		𤏶
Old
Chinese 		/*qaːw/
Notes 𤏶今字

Definitions

熬

  1. to stew (vegetables, etc.) in water; to boil; to simmer

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

熬

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. parch
  2. roast

Readings

  • Go-on: ごう (gō)
  • Kan-on: ごう (gō)
  • Kun: いる (iru, 熬る)

Korean

Hanja

熬 (eum 오 (o))

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Vietnamese

Han character

熬: Hán Nôm readings: ngao

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