䴈

䴈 U+4D08, 䴈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4D08 ← 䴇 [U+4D07] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 䴉 → [U+4D09]

Translingual

Han character

䴈 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+13, 24 strokes, cangjie input 竹大竹日火 (HKHAF), composition ⿰奧鳥 or ⿰奥鳥)

References

• KangXi: page 1502, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4665, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4D08

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 奧 (OC *quːɡs) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology 1

trad.		䴈
simp.		𬸩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎo, yāo (ao³, yao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˇ, ㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ou², ou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎo
    • Wade–Giles: ao³
    • Yale: ǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ao
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yao
    • Wade–Giles: yao¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ou², ou³
    • Yale: óu, ou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ou², ou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ou², ou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou̯³⁵/, /ou̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

䴈

1. Only used in 鶆䴈／𱉵𬸩 (lái'ǎo).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 䴈 – see 𪁾 (“a kind of bird”). (This character, 䴈, is a variant form of 𪁾.)