See also: and 𫤬
U+5146, 兆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5146

[U+5145]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5147]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

(Kangxi radical 10, +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 32113, composition or 丿)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 124, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1347
  • Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 268, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5146

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠧞
𡉵
𡊥
 
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Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
           




References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Pictogram (象形) – the cracks in a shell during fortune-telling, an omen.

EtymologyEdit

Compare Chepang ह्रावःसा (hrawʔ‑, to forebode; to portend ill fortune).

PronunciationEdit


Note:
  • diao6 - Shantou;
  • diou6 - Chaozhou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (11)
Final () (92)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter drjewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠiᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚiɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖiawX/
Li
Rong
/ȡjɛuX/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ziu6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhào
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*lr[a]wʔ/
English great number

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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. 16856
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ewʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

  1. (historical) cracks formed on heated tortoise plastrons and mammal bones used in ancient divination
  2. omen
      ―  zhào  ―  auspicious omen
  3. to portend; to augur
  4. graveyard, cemetery, necropolis
  5. (chiefly Taiwan) trillion (million million), tera-, 1012
  6. (Mainland China) (SI prefix) million, mega-, 106

SynonymsEdit

  • (trillion): (Mainland China) 萬億万亿 (wànyì)
  • (tera-): (Mainland China) (tài)
  • (mega-): (Taiwan) 百萬百万 (bǎiwàn)

CompoundsEdit

See alsoEdit

Chinese numerals
104 108 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 1036 1040 1044 1048
(wàn) 亿 () (zhào) (Taiwan) (jīng) (Taiwan) (gāi) () (ráng) (gōu) (jiàn) (zhèng) (zài) ()
萬億万亿 (wànyì)
(Mainland China)
/亿亿
(Mainland China)

JapaneseEdit

 
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KanjiEdit

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. portent
  2. trillion, 1012
  3. sign
  4. omen
  5. symptoms

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

NumeralEdit

(ちょう) (chō

  1. trillion (million million), 1012
    5000(ごせん)(ちょう)(えん)()しい!
    Go-sen-chō-en hoshii!
    I want 5,000,000,000,000,000 yen! (internet meme)

See alsoEdit

Japanese numerical compounds with (ちょう) (chō)
1012 2 × 1012 3 × 1012 4 × 1012 5 × 1012 6 × 1012 7 × 1012 8 × 1012 9 × 1012 1013 1014
(いっ)(ちょう) (itchō) ()(ちょう) (nichō) (さん)(ちょう) (sanchō) (よん)(ちょう) (yonchō) ()(ちょう) (gochō) (ろく)(ちょう) (rokuchō) (なな)(ちょう) (nanachō) (はっ)(ちょう) (hatchō) (きゅう)(ちょう) (kyūchō) (じゅっ)(ちょう) (jutchō) (ひゃく)(ちょう) (hyakuchō)

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

(eum (jo))

  1. Hanja form? of (a trillion).

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

: Hán Nôm readings: triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu

  1. million, mega-