筶

筶

筶 U+7B76, 筶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B76 ← 筵 [U+7B75] CJK Unified Ideographs 筷 → [U+7B77]

Translingual

Han character

筶 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹土口 (HHGR), four-corner 8860₁, composition ⿱𥫗告)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 886, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26099
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2974, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7B76

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Chinese

trad.		筶
simp. #		筶

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gào, gǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠˋ, ㄍㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gào
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gào
    • Wade–Giles: kao⁴
    • Yale: gàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaw
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǎo
    • Wade–Giles: kao³
    • Yale: gǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gao
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gou²
    • Yale: góu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯³⁵/

Definitions

筶

1. ancient divination instrument
2. Used in place names

   東筶杯島／东筶杯岛  ―  Dōnggàobēi Dǎo  ―  Donggaobei Island (an island in Xiuyu, Putian, Fujian, China)