哨

哨

哨 U+54E8, 哨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E8 ← 哧 [U+54E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 哩 → [U+54E9]

Translingual

Han character

哨 (radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口火月 (RFB), four-corner 6902₇, composition ⿰口肖)

1. to whistle, blow a whistle
2. chirp

References

• KangXi: page 190, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3646
• Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 628, character 1
• Unihan data for U+54E8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哨
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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shào (shao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saau³
• Min Nan (POJ): sàu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shào
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaw
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saau³
    • Yale: saau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sao³
    • IPA ^(key): /säːu̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàu
    • Tâi-lô: sàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /saʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /saʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /saʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /saʊ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /saʊ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /siᴇu/, /t͡sʰiᴇu^H/▼

Rime
Character	哨	哨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	相邀切	七肖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/	/t͡sʰiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/	/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/	/t͡sʰjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/	/t͡sʰiawH/
Li Rong	/siɛu/	/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/	/t͡sʰĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/	/t͡sʰi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo	qiào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːws/, /*sʰews/, /*sew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哨	哨	哨
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	13727	13734	13748
Phonetic component	肖	肖	肖
Rime group	宵	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	稍	陗	宵
Old Chinese	/*sreːws/	/*sʰews/	/*sew/
Notes	同月肖，又睄（巡視）之分化字	見禮記

Definitions

哨

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Compounds

前哨 (qiánshào) 口哨 (kǒushào) 吹哨 (chuīshào) 呼哨 (hūshào) 哨兵 (shàobīng) 哨子 (shàozi)

哨戒 哨戒艦／哨戒舰 哨所 (shàosuǒ) 哨片 (shàopiàn) 哨聲／哨声 (shàoshēng) 哨角 (shàojiǎo)

崗哨／岗哨 (gǎngshào) 放哨 (fàngshào) 暗哨 (ànshào) 查哨 (cháshào) 步哨 (bùshào) 花哨 (huāshào)

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Japanese

Kanji

哨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. to stand guard, to look out (for a suspect or enemy)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}; そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: みはり (mihari, 哨)

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Korean

Hanja

哨 • (cho, so) (hangeul 초, 소, revised cho, so, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哨 (tiếu, téo, toé, tiêu)

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