囂

囂

See also: 嚣

囂 U+56C2, 囂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56C2 ← 囁 [U+56C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 囃 → [U+56C3]

Translingual

Han character

囂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口口一金口 (RRMCR), four-corner 6666₈, composition ⿳吅頁吅)

References

• KangXi: page 214, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4616
• Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 706, character 5
• Unihan data for U+56C2

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Chinese

trad.		囂
simp.		嚣
alternative forms		嚻 𠽸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 囂
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
囂	*ŋaːw, *hŋraw
虈	*hŋraw

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 㗊 (“four mouths; to clamor”) + 頁／页 (“head”) – a clamoring crowd.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hiu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): hiau / hau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hiu¹
    • Yale: hīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hiu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiau
    • Tâi-lô: hiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiaw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiau⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hau
    • Tâi-lô: hau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hau³³/

Note:

• hiau - literary;
• hau - vernacular.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 囂
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕiau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/ɕiɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕiau²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ɕiau²¹/
	Xining	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiɔ³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕiau⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ɕiao⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/siɔo³¹/
	Hefei	/ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕiɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕiɔ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/ɕiæ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɕiɔ³³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕiɛ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕiɔ³¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕiau³³/
	Xiangtan	/ɕiaɯ³³/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/hiau⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hiu⁵³/
	Nanning	/hiu⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/hiu⁵³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hiau⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/hieu⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/siau⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hiau³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hiau²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋraw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	囂
Reading #	2/2
No.	13681
Phonetic component	囂
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嚻
Old Chinese	/*hŋraw/

Definitions

囂

1. to be loud; to be noisy; to clamor
2. arrogant

Compounds

任囂／任嚣 叫囂／叫嚣 (jiàoxiāo) 喧囂／喧嚣 (xuānxiāo) 囂俗／嚣俗 囂俳／嚣俳 (“hiau-pai”) (Min Nan) 囂囂／嚣嚣 囂塵／嚣尘 囂張／嚣张 (xiāozhāng) 囂浮／嚣浮 囂滓／嚣滓 囂然／嚣然

囂競／嚣竞 囂謗／嚣谤 囂雜／嚣杂 囂頭／嚣头 囂風／嚣风 囂鬧／嚣闹 塵囂／尘嚣 (chénxiāo) 它囂／它嚣 氣焰囂張／气焰嚣张 煩囂／烦嚣 煩囂喧鬧／烦嚣喧闹

甚囂塵上／甚嚣尘上 (shènxiāochénshàng) 紛囂／纷嚣 繁囂／繁嚣 者囂／者嚣 虛囂／虚嚣 調虛囂／调虚嚣 諠囂／喧嚣 謾罵叫囂／谩骂叫嚣 譁囂／哗嚣 隗囂／隗嚣

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áo (ao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: áo
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: áo
    • Wade–Giles: ao²
    • Yale: áu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aur
    • Palladius: ао (ao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	囂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	áo
Middle Chinese	‹ ngaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁaw/
English	clamor, many voices; arrogant
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	囂
Reading #	1/2
No.	13680
Phonetic component	囂
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːw/

Definitions

囂

1. (literary) Alternative form of 隞 (Áo, “Ao (capital of the Shang Dynasty)”).

Compounds

囂囂／嚣嚣 (áoáo) 囂書／嚣书 (áoshū)

囂然／嚣然 (áorán)

囂藹／嚣蔼 (áoǎi)

References

• “囂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

囂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Noisy, talking loudly without thinking about people around you.[1]

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: かしましい (kashimashii, 囂しい); かまびすしい (kamabisushii, 囂しい)

References

1. Akiyasu Tōdō [et al.] (2002) 漢字源, →ISBN: “囂”

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Korean

Hanja

囂 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune–Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

1. clamorous, noisy

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Vietnamese

Han character

囂: Hán Nôm readings: hiu

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