梢

梢 U+68A2, 梢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68A2 ← 梡 [U+68A1] CJK Unified Ideographs 梣 → [U+68A3]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

梢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木火月 (DFB), four-corner 4992₇, composition ⿰木肖)

Derived characters

• 䔠 䈾 𣻘 𦄏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 530, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14866
• Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1213, character 1
• Unihan data for U+68A2

Chinese

trad.		梢
simp. #		梢
alternative forms		萷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 梢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sreːw): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāo (shao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saau¹

• Jin (Wiktionary): sau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sau / siau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shao
    • Wade–Giles: shao¹
    • Yale: shāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saau¹
    • Yale: sāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːu̯⁵⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: sau¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /sau¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau / siau
    • Tâi-lô: sau / siau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saw, siaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sau⁴⁴/, /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/, /siau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sau⁴⁴/, /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sau⁴⁴/, /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sau⁴⁴/, /siau⁴⁴/

Note:

• sau - literary;
• siau - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: sraew

Rime
Character	梢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所交切
Baxter	sraew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨw/
Li Rong	/ʃau/
Wang Li	/ʃau/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	梢
Reading #	1/1
No.	13710
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	梢
Old Chinese	/*sreːw/

Definitions

梢

1. pointed tip of something long like a branch
2. rudder

Compounds

• 上梢
• 下梢
• 三梢末尾
• 下梢頭 / 下梢头
• 喜上眉梢 (xǐshàngméishāo)
• 報梢 / 报梢
• 把梢的
• 掂梢折本
• 撈梢 / 捞梢
• 末尾三梢
• 末梢 (mòshāo)
• 末梢神經 / 末梢神经
• 末梢頭 / 末梢头
• 枝梢
• 林梢
• 枷梢
• 梢人
• 梢公 (shāogōng)
• 梢梢
• 梢棒
• 梢間 / 梢间
• 梢雲 / 梢云
• 梢頭 / 梢头
• 樹梢 / 树梢 (shùshāo)
• 沒下梢 / 没下梢
• 沒梢幹 / 没梢干
• 盯梢 (dīngshāo)
• 眉梢 (méishāo)
• 眼梢
• 神經末梢 / 神经末梢 (shénjīng mòshāo)
• 翻梢
• 腳梢天 / 脚梢天
• 船梢
• 謊徹梢虛 / 谎彻梢虚
• 豆蔻梢頭 / 豆蔻梢头
• 頭梢 / 头梢
• 頭梢自領 / 头梢自领