藃

藃 U+85C3, 藃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85C3 ← 藂 [U+85C2] CJK Unified Ideographs 藄 → [U+85C4]

Translingual

Han character

藃 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜月人 (TYBO), four-corner 4428₂, composition ⿱艹歊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1063, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32228
• Dae Jaweon: page 1528, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3315, character 7
• Unihan data for U+85C3

Chinese

trad.		藃
simp. #		藃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	*kaːw, *kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞	*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗	*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hào, xiāo (hao⁴, xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ, ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hào
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴
    • Yale: hàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou³
    • Yale: hou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjew, xaew, xawH

Rime
Character	藃	藃	藃
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	宵 (92)	肴 (90)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II	I
Fanqie	許嬌切	許交切	呼到切
Baxter	xjew	xaew	xawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇu/	/hˠau/	/hɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛu/	/hᵚau/	/hɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/xiæu/	/xau/	/xɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hiaw/	/haɨw/	/hawH/
Li Rong	/xjɛu/	/xau/	/xɑuH/
Wang Li	/xĭɛu/	/xau/	/xɑuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯ɛu/	/xau/	/xɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo	xiāo	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hiu1	haau1	hou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤaw(k)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaːws/, /*qʰraːw/, /*qʰraw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hào
Middle Chinese	‹ xawH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁaw(k)-s/
English	contract (v.)
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	藃	藃	藃
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	3746	3761	3766
Phonetic component	高	高	高
Rime group	宵	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	秏	虓	嚻
Old Chinese	/*qʰaːws/	/*qʰraːw/	/*qʰraw/

Definitions

藃

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) appearance of uneven grass