堖

See also: 垴

堖 U+5816, 堖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5816 ← 堕 [U+5815] CJK Unified Ideographs 堗 → [U+5817]

Translingual

Han character

堖 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土女女田 (GVVW), composition ⿰土𡿺)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 234, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 469, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5816

Chinese

trad.		堖/垴
simp.		垴
2nd round simp.		㐫

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 𡿺.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǎo (nao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁵
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): nao²
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶nau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǎo
    • Wade–Giles: nao³
    • Yale: nǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nao
    • Palladius: нао (nao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nou⁵
    • Yale: nóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nao²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: náu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nau⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶nau
    • MiniDict: nau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /nɔ²³/

Definitions

堖

1. (dialectal) mound; small hill; flat area at the top of a hill (most often used in place names)

Compounds

• 亮家堖 / 亮家垴 (Liàngjiānǎo)
• 南堖 / 南垴
• 大堖寨 / 大垴寨 (Dànǎozhài)
• 沙洲堖 / 沙洲垴
• 涂家堖 (Tújiānǎo)
• 西堖包 / 西垴包
• 鬥牛堖 / 斗牛垴

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 堖 – see 腦 (“brain; head; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 腦).

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (粵拼資料庫)