邵

邵 U+90B5, 邵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90B5 ← 邴 [U+90B4] CJK Unified Ideographs 邶 → [U+90B6]

Translingual

Han character

邵 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸口弓中 (SRNL) or X尸口弓中 (XSRNL), four-corner 1762₇, composition ⿰召阝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1270, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39343
• Dae Jaweon: page 1769, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3764, character 9
• Unihan data for U+90B5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		邵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*taːw
舠	*taːw
朷	*taːw, *moːɡ
叨	*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒	*taːwʔ, *taːws
到	*taːws
菿	*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀	*deːw
鳭	*rteːw, *teːw
灱	*hreːw
菬	*sdew, *tjewʔ
超	*tʰew
怊	*tʰew, *tʰjew
欩	*tʰew
召	*dews, *djews
昭	*tjew
招	*tjew
鉊	*tjew
沼	*tjewʔ
照	*tjews
詔	*tjews
炤	*tjews
弨	*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧	*tʰjewʔ
韶	*djew
佋	*djew, *djewʔ
軺	*djew, *lew
玿	*djew
柖	*djew
紹	*djewʔ
袑	*djewʔ
綤	*djewʔ
邵	*djews
劭	*djews
卲	*djews
刁	*teːw
芀	*teːw, *deːw
貂	*teːw
蛁	*teːw
迢	*deːw
苕	*deːw
髫	*deːw
岧	*deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djews): phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews) + semantic 阝.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shào (shao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): seu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sau⁴

• Min Dong (BUC): siêu
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): siō

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao⁶ / siou⁶ / siên⁷

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Shanghainese): ⁶zau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shào
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shào
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴
    • Yale: shàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaw
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu⁶
    • Yale: siuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: seu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sau⁵³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siêu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛu²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siō
    • Tâi-lô: siō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sioi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕio²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕio⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕio²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕio³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɤ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao⁶ / siou⁶ / siên⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siău / siŏu / siēⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau³⁵/, /siou³⁵/, /sĩẽ¹¹/

Note:

• siao6 - Shantou;
• siou6 - Chaozhou.

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wugniu: ⁶zau
  • Wiktionary Romanisation: ³zau
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /zɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyewH

Rime
Character	邵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	寔照切
Baxter	dzyewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiawH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]aw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djews/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shào
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyewH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]aw-s/
English	(place name)
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	邵
Reading #	1/1
No.	2149
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	邵
Old Chinese	/*djews/

Definitions

邵

1. Name of various places in Ancient China.
2. Short for 邵陽／邵阳 (Shàoyáng, “Shaoyang”).
3. (～族) Thao people (a Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group, from Thao Thau)
4. a surname

   邵逸夫  ―  Shào Yìfū  ―  Run Run Shaw

Compounds

• 邵人 (Shàorén)
• 邵家樓／邵家楼 (Shàojiālóu)
• 邵族 (shàozú)
• 邵美
• 邵語／邵语 (Shàoyǔ)
• 邵陽／邵阳 (Shàoyáng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

邵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぜう (zeu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

邵 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

邵: Hán Nôm readings: nghẹo, thiệt

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References

• Nom Foundation