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U+8B59, 譙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B59

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人土火 (YROGF), four-corner 00631, composition )

  1. tower
  2. used as a surname

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1182, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35976
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1645, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4019, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8B59

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter dzjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ziᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ziaw/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziɛu/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiáo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ciu4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6355
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zew/

Definitions

  1. (literary) watchtower on a city gate
  2. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of  / (qiào, to blame)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. tower

Readings

  • On (unclassified): しょう (shō)じょう ()すい (sui)ずい (zui)
  • Kun: しかる (shikaru)

Korean

Hanja

(cho) (hangeul , revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: tiếu[1][2][3][4], tiều[5][1][3][4], tiệu[1]
: Nôm readings: tèo[1], tiệu[1], tiều[5]

  1. chữ Hán form of tiếu (tower, a surname).

References