綽

綽

See also: 绰

綽 U+7DBD, 綽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DBD ← 綼 [U+7DBC] CJK Unified Ideographs 綾 → [U+7DBE]

Translingual

Han character

綽 (radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜日十 (VFYAJ), four-corner 2194₆, composition ⿰糹卓)

1. graceful, delicate
2. spacious

References

• KangXi: page 928, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27590
• Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3412, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7DBD

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Chinese

trad.		綽
simp.		绰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
悼	*deːwɢs
淖	*rneːwɢs
罩	*rteːwɢs
鵫	*rteːwɢs, *rdeːwɢ
趠	*rtʰeːwɢs, *rtʰeːwɢ
踔	*rtʰeːwɢs, *rtʰeːwɢ
棹	*rdeːwɢs
鋽	*tʰeːwɢs
掉	*deːwʔ, *deːwɢs, *rneːwɢ
逴	*tʰewɢ, *rtʰeːwɢ
焯	*tjewɢ
綽	*tʰjewɢ
婥	*tʰjewɢ
繛	*tʰjewɢ
卓	*rteːwɢ
桌	*rteːwɢ
倬	*rteːwɢ
啅	*rteːwɢ
晫	*rteːwɢ, *rtʰeːwɢ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuò (chuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coek³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiok / chhiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'uo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coek³
    • Yale: cheuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêg³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœ̽ːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiok
    • Tâi-lô: tshiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiog
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiak
    • Tâi-lô: tshiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiak̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ciag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiak
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiak̚²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 綽
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂʰuo⁵⁵/ /ʈ͡ʂʰuo⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʰɑu²¹/ /t͡sʰɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə²¹³/ /ʈ͡ʂʰɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/tʃʰuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰuo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/p͡fʰuo²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fʰə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡sʰuo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰo³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰo²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʰo³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡sʰuaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʰʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰuaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕʰa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰiɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂʰo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂʰo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰok̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰœk̚³/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰœk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰœk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰiak̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡sɔk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨɐk̚/▼

Rime
Character	綽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	昌約切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰawk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjewɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuò
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhak ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰawk/
English	indulgent, gentle
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	綽
Reading #	1/1
No.	17762
Phonetic component	卓
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	綽
Old Chinese	/*tʰjewɢ/

Definitions

綽

1. (literary) ample; spacious

Compounds

寬綽／宽绰 (kuānchuò) 綽板／绰板 (chuòbǎn)

綽爾／绰尔 (chuò'ěr) 綽約／绰约 (chuòyuē)

綽號／绰号 (chuòhào) 闊綽／阔绰 (kuòchuò)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāo, chuò (chao¹, chuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄠ, ㄔㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: chāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chau
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'uo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuoh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/

Definitions

綽

1. to grab

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Japanese

Kanji

綽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: あだ (ada, 綽); しなやか (shinayaka, 綽やか); ゆるやか (yuruyaka, 綽やか)

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Korean

Hanja

綽 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

綽 (xước)

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