U+7A95, 窕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A95

[U+7A94]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7A96]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 116, +6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十金中一人 (JCLMO), four-corner 30113, composition)

  1. slender
  2. quiet and modest, charming

References

  • KangXi: page 865, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25496
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1293, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2729, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7A95

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
*l̥ʰews
*l'ew
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
*l'ewʔ
*lew
*lew
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
*lew
*lew
*lews
*lews
*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l'eːwʔ
*l'eːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'eːwʔ) : semantic  (cave) + phonetic  (OC *l'ewʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/deuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/deuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/deuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛwX/
Li
Rong
/deuX/
Wang
Li
/dieuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diào
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ dewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁ[e]wʔ/
English 窈窕 beautiful

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. 16893
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'eːwʔ/

Definitions

  1. Used in 窈窕 (yǎotiǎo).

Compounds

  • 目窕心與目窕心与
  • 窈窕 (yǎotiǎo)
  • 裊窕袅窕

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)
  • Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii)

Korean

Hanja

(jo) (hangeul , revised jo, McCuneReischauer cho, Yale co)

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