U+6556, 敖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6556

[U+6555]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6557]
U+FA90, 敖
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA90

[U+FA8F]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FA91]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 66, +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土尸人大 (GSOK) or 手尸人大 (QSOK), four-corner 48240, composition ⿰⿱)

  1. leisurely
  2. a surname

Derived characters edit

Synonyms edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 471, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13226
  • Dae Jaweon: page 824, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1456, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+6556

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 𢾍
𢾕

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     

Originally 𫠤, a pictogram (象形) depicting a person with a headress. was later added to emphasize action, making it a phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) . Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (leave) + (release)

Pronunciation 1 edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter ngaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋaw/
Li
Rong
/ŋɑu/
Wang
Li
/ŋɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
áo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
áo áo
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngaw › ‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ]ˁaw/ /*ŋˁaw/
English tall saunter about

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. 39
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːw/

Definitions edit

  1. (literary) Original form of (áo, “to ramble; to play about”).
  2. to tease; to joke; to flirt with
  3. to make an uproar
  4. someone who has not assumed the throne, and thus has no posthumous name, due to dying early [Chu]
  5. four-chi-high dog
  6. Original form of (áo, “granary”).
  7. Alternative form of (áo, pincer; nipper; claw)
  8. Alternative form of (to cook on slow fire; to boil)
  9. (historical) An ancient place in the northwest of today Xingyang, Henan.
  10. a surname

Compounds edit

Pronunciation 2 edit


Definitions edit

  1. Alternative form of (haughty; arrogant; conceited)

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. play
  2. be proud

Readings edit

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaw); compare Mandarin (áo):

From Middle Chinese (MC ngawH); compare Mandarin (ào):

From native Japanese roots:

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eum (o))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: ngào

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