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U+7E1E, 縞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E1E

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 120, +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜口月 (VFYRB), four-corner 20927, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27777
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3438, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7E1E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːwʔ, *kaːws) : semantic (silk) + phonetic (OC *kaːw).

Etymology

Same word as (OC *kaːwʔ, “bright; white”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (89) (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter kawX kawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kawX/ /kawH/
Li
Rong
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Wang
Li
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kɑuX/ /kɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gǎo gào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gou2 gou3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3732 3737
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaːwʔ/ /*kaːws/

Definitions

  1. (historical) white raw silk
  2. (literary) white
  3. (literary) to shine upon

Compounds

Descendants

  • Tocharian B: *kaum ~ kom ( unbleached silk), kaumma ? pl (accusative)

Japanese

Glyph origin

しま (shima, stripe)
国訓(こっくん) (kokkun); hence perhaps an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic (silk) + semantic (high), in reference to stripes on linens. Compare (しのぎ) (shinogi, grind line).

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. stripe

Readings

  • Go-on: こう ()かう (kau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう ()かう (kau, historical)
  • Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu, )しま (shima, )

Noun

(しま) (shima

  1. stripe

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: cảo[1][2][3]

  1. chữ Hán form of cảo (white raw silk (historical)).

References