螯

螯 U+87AF, 螯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87AF ← 螮 [U+87AE] CJK Unified Ideographs 螰 → [U+87B0]

Translingual

Han character

螯 (radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土大中一戈 (GKLMI) or 手大中一戈 (QKLMI) or X土大中一 (XGKLM), four-corner 4813₆, composition ⿱敖虫)

1. nippers, pincers, claws (of crustaceans)

References

• KangXi: page 1094, character 53
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33496
• Dae Jaweon: page 1559, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2875, character 7
• Unihan data for U+87AF

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Chinese

trad.		螯
simp. #		螯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
熬	*ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖	*ŋaːw
嗷	*ŋaːw
螯	*ŋaːw
聱	*ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲	*ŋaːw
遨	*ŋaːw
獒	*ŋaːw
滶	*ŋaːw
蔜	*ŋaːw
鷔	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇	*ŋaːw
謷	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅	*ŋaːw
嗸	*ŋaːw
摮	*ŋaːw
嫯	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊	*ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲	*ŋaːws
磝	*ŋraːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːw): phonetic 敖 (OC *ŋaːw) + semantic 虫 (“insect”) – part of an insect, its pincers.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áo (ao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngou⁴, gong⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: áo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aur
    • Tongyong Pinyin: áo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngou⁴, gong⁶
    • Yale: ngòuh, gohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngou⁴, gong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngou⁴, gong⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋou̯²¹/, /kɔːŋ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑu/

Rime
Character	螯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五勞切
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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螯
Reading #	1/1
No.	41
Phonetic component	敖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	敖
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

螯

1. pincer; chela; nipper; claw

Compounds

• 大螯蝦／大螯虾 (dà'áoxiā)
• 持螯

• 畢卓持螯／毕卓持螯
• 蟹螯 (xiè'áo)

• 車螯／车螯

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Japanese

Kanji

螯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. claws

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: ごう (gō)
• Kun: はさみ (hasami, 螯)

Noun

螯 (hiragana はさみ, katakana ハサミ, rōmaji hasami)

1. chela

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Vietnamese

Han character

螯 (ngao)

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