狡

狡 U+72E1, 狡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72E1 ← 狠 [U+72E0] CJK Unified Ideographs 狢 → [U+72E2]

Translingual

Han character

狡 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹卜金大 (KHYCK), four-corner 4024₈, composition ⿰犭交)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 710, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20365
• Dae Jaweon: page 1122, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1345, character 9
• Unihan data for U+72E1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		狡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
烄	*keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮	*pʰreːws
交	*kreːw
郊	*kreːw
茭	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟	*kreːw
鮫	*kreːw
鵁	*kreːw
咬	*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼	*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨	*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞	*kreːwʔ
狡	*kreːwʔ
姣	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊	*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校	*kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓	*kreːws
跤	*kʰreːw
頝	*kʰreːw
骹	*kʰraːw
齩	*ŋɡreːwʔ
洨	*ɡreːw
胶	*ɡreːw
效	*ɡreːws
効	*ɡreːws
傚	*ɡreːws
皎	*keːwʔ
恔	*keːwʔ
晈	*keːwʔ
窔	*qeːws
駮	*pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiǎo (jiao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): káu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎo
    • Wade–Giles: chiao³
    • Yale: jyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeau
    • Palladius: цзяо (czjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaau²
    • Yale: gáau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gao²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káu
    • Tâi-lô: káu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kau⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kau⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kaewX

Rime
Character	狡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古巧切
Baxter	kaewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠauX/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚauX/
Shao Rongfen	/kauX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwX/
Li Rong	/kauX/
Wang Li	/kauX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kauX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaau2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kreːwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	狡
Reading #	1/1
No.	6307
Phonetic component	交
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	絞
Old Chinese	/*kreːwʔ/

Definitions

狡

1. sly; cunning; treacherous

   • 呂布有虓虎之勇，而無英奇之略，輕狡反覆，唯利是視。自古及今，未有若此不夷滅也。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     吕布有虓虎之勇，而无英奇之略，轻狡反覆，唯利是视。自古及今，未有若此不夷灭也。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Chen Shou, Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 3^rd century CE

     Lǚ Bù yǒu xiāohǔ zhī yǒng, ér wú yīngqí zhī lüè, qīng jiǎo fǎnfù, wéilìshìshì. Zìgǔ jíjīn, wèiyǒu ruòcǐ bù yímiè yě. [Pinyin]

     Lü Bu possessed a roaring tiger's valor, yet no strategy of talented and extraordinary people's; he was frivolous, treacherous, and shifty, only looking out for his own gain. From antiquity till now, there was none like this who was not destroyed.

Compounds

• 三窟狡兔
• 刁狡
• 奸狡
• 朦狡
• 狡兔三窟 (jiǎotùsānkū)
• 狡怪 (káu-koài)
• 狡憤 / 狡愤
• 狡猾 (jiǎohuá)
• 狡猾多詐 / 狡猾多诈
• 狡獪 / 狡狯 (jiǎokuài)
• 狡童
• 狡蠹
• 狡計 / 狡计 (jiǎojì)
• 狡詐 / 狡诈 (jiǎozhà)
• 狡賴 / 狡赖 (jiǎolài)
• 狡辯 / 狡辩 (jiǎobiàn)
• 狡飾 / 狡饰
• 狡黠 (jiǎoxiá)