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U+8170, 腰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8170

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月一田女 (BMWV), four-corner 71244, composition (GJK) or ⿰(HTV))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 989, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29705
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2094, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8170

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qew) : semantic (flesh) + phonetic (OC *qew, *qews).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • io - vernacular;
  • iau - literary.
Note:
  • iê1 - Chaozhou;
  • io1 - Shantou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter 'jiew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiaw/
Li
Rong
/ʔiɛu/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jiu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjiew ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔew/
English waist

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. 14747
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qew/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) waist; lower back; small of the back (Classifier: c)
  2. waist of clothes
  3. kidney; edible animal kidney
  4. purse; pockets
  5. middle part
  6. a surname: Yao

Synonyms

  • (waist): (regional) 腰子 (yāozi)
  • (kidney):

Compounds

Descendants

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

腰󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
腰󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. hips, loins, lower back

Readings

  • Go-on: よう (, Jōyō)えう (eu, historical)
  • Kan-on: よう (, Jōyō)えう (eu, historical)
  • Kun: こし (koshi, , Jōyō)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
こし
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
こしコシ
the waist, the (lower) back, the small of the back
(anatomy) the lumbar region
the skirting of a shoji
the third line of a waka or tanka poem (from the way that the next two lines are longer, similar to the way the body gets wider at the hips)
(of food) chewiness; springiness
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
よう
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC 'jiew).

Pronunciation

Affix

(よう) (えう (eu)?

  1. hips, loins, lower back

References

  1. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “”, in 字通 (Jitsū) (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC 'jiew). Recorded as Middle Korean (yo) (Yale: yo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 허리 (heori yo))

  1. hanja form? of (waist; hips)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: yêu, ro, eo, oeo

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