祧

祧 U+7967, 祧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7967 ← 祦 [U+7966] CJK Unified Ideographs 票 → [U+7968]

Translingual

Han character

祧 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈火中一人 (IFLMO), four-corner 3221₃, composition ⿰礻兆)

1. ancestral temple

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 842, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24693
• Dae Jaweon: page 1263, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2397, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7967

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祧
alternative forms		𥜔

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
挑	*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮	*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃	*l'aːw
逃	*l'aːw
咷	*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗	*l'aːw
鞉	*l'aːw
駣	*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁	*sl̥ʰew
脁	*l̥ʰews
晁	*l'ew
兆	*l'ewʔ
旐	*l'ewʔ
狣	*l'ewʔ
鮡	*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗	*l'ewʔ
姚	*lew
珧	*lew
銚	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑	*lew
餆	*lew
筄	*lews
艞	*lews
佻	*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧	*l̥ʰeːw
朓	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣	*l̥ʰeːw
趒	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎	*l̥ʰeːw
眺	*l̥ʰeːws
覜	*l̥ʰeːws
頫	*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩	*l̥ʰeːws
跳	*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕	*l'eːwʔ
誂	*l'eːwʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiāo (tiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tiu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻiao¹
    • Yale: tyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiau
    • Palladius: тяо (tjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tiu¹
    • Yale: tīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tiu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau
    • Tâi-lô: thiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiaw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiau³³/

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• Middle Chinese: thew

Rime
Character	祧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	吐彫切
Baxter	thew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰeu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰeu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰeu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛw/
Li Rong	/tʰeu/
Wang Li	/tʰieu/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tiu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰeːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祧
Reading #	1/1
No.	16873
Phonetic component	兆
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	祧
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰeːw/

Definitions

祧

1. (literary) ancestral hall; ancestral temple
2. (literary) ancestral hall where the spirit tablets of distant ancestors are stored
3. (literary) to move spirit tablets to such an ancestral hall for storage
4. (literary) to inherit; to become heir to

Compounds

• 不祧
• 兼祧 (jiāntiāo)
• 宗祧
• 承祧
• 祧師／祧师
• 祧緒／祧绪

 

Japanese

Kanji

祧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. an ancestral hall

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)

Korean

Hanja

祧 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

1. ancestral temple