肇
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Translingual
Han character
肇 (Kangxi radical 129, 聿+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹大中手 (HKLQ) or 戈大中手 (IKLQ), four-corner 38507, composition ⿱𢼄聿)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 972, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29228
- Dae Jaweon: page 1423, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3168, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8087
Chinese
| trad. | 肇 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 肇 | |
| alternative forms | 肈 肁 | |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dawʔ) : phonetic 肁 (OC *dawʔ) + semantic 攵 (“hand action”)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): diêu
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6zau
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhào
- Wade–Giles: chao4
- Yale: jàu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaw
- Palladius: чжао (čžao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: siu6
- Yale: siuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: siu6
- Guangdong Romanization: xiu6
- Sinological IPA (key): /siːu̯²²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: siau5
- Sinological IPA (key): /siau³²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: seu
- Hakka Romanization System: seu
- Hagfa Pinyim: seu4
- Sinological IPA: /seu̯⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: diêu
- Sinological IPA (key): /tiɛu²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāu
- Tâi-lô: tiāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: diau
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiau²²/
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiau³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: siao6 / siou6
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siău / siŏu
- Sinological IPA (key): /siau³⁵/, /siou³⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: drjewX
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*dawʔ/
Definitions
肇
- (literary) to commence; to start; to begin
- (literary) to cause
- Short for 肇慶／肇庆 (Zhàoqìng, “Zhaoqing”).
Compounds
Japanese
| Shinjitai | 肇 | |
| Kyūjitai [1] |
肇󠄁 肇+ 󠄁?(Adobe-Japan1) |
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| 肇󠄃 肇+ 󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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Kanji
肇
Readings
- Go-on: じょう (jō)←でう (deu, historical)
- Kan-on: ちょう (chō)←てう (teu, historical)
- Kun: ただす (tadasu, 肇す)、はじめて (hajimete, 肇めて)、はじめる (hajimeru, 肇める)
- Nanori: こと (koto)、ただ (tada)、ただし (tadashi)、とし (toshi)、なが (naga)、はじめ (hajime)、はじむ (hajimu)、はつ (hatsu)
Proper noun
- a male given name
References
- ^ “肇”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
Korean
Hanja
肇 • (jo) (hangeul 조, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)
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