縹

縹

See also: 缥

縹 U+7E39, 縹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E39 ← 縸 [U+7E38] CJK Unified Ideographs 縺 → [U+7E3A]

Translingual

Han character

縹 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火一田火 (VFMWF), four-corner 2199₁, composition ⿰糹票)

1. light blue
2. pretty, beautiful, handsome
3. fly in the air

References

• KangXi: page 936, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27837
• Dae Jaweon: page 1375, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3442, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7E39

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Chinese

trad.		縹
simp.		缥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
標	*pew, *pewʔ
鏢	*pew, *pʰew
瘭	*pew
幖	*pew
熛	*pew
蔈	*pew
膘	*prew, *pʰewʔ, *bewʔ, *spewʔ
褾	*pewʔ
票	*pʰew
飄	*pʰew, *bew
漂	*pʰew, *pʰews
螵	*pʰew, *bew
瞟	*pʰew, *pʰewʔ
嫖	*pʰew, *pʰews
旚	*pʰew
僄	*pʰew, *pʰews
慓	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
彯	*pʰew, *pʰews
摽	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
翲	*pʰew, *pʰews
嘌	*pʰew
縹	*pʰewʔ
醥	*pʰewʔ
顠	*pʰewʔ, *bewʔ
篻	*pʰewʔ, *mbew
剽	*pʰews, *bew
勡	*pʰews
薸	*bew
瓢	*bew
鰾	*bewʔ
驃	*bews

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piǎo, piāo, piào (piao³, piao¹, piao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄠˇ, ㄆㄧㄠ, ㄆㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): piu⁵, piu¹, piu²
• Min Nan (POJ): phiau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pʻiao³
    • Yale: pyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: peau
    • Palladius: пяо (pjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰjɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piao
    • Wade–Giles: pʻiao¹
    • Yale: pyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piau
    • Palladius: пяо (pjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰjɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piào
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piào
    • Wade–Giles: pʻiao⁴
    • Yale: pyàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piaw
    • Palladius: пяо (pjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰjɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: piu⁵, piu¹, piu²
    • Yale: píuh, pīu, píu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: piu⁵, piu¹, piu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: piu⁵, piu¹, piu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːu̯¹³/, /pʰiːu̯⁵⁵/, /pʰiːu̯³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiau
    • Tâi-lô: phiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiau³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʰiᴇu^X/

Rime
Character	縹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敷沼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰiᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰjæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰiawX/
Li Rong	/pʰiɛuX/
Wang Li	/pʰĭɛuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	piu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰewʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縹
Reading #	1/1
No.	9765
Phonetic component	票
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	縹
Old Chinese	/*pʰewʔ/

Definitions

縹

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Compounds

名溢縹囊／名溢缥囊 緗縹／缃缥 縹囊／缥囊 縹帙／缥帙 (piǎozhì)

縹渺／缥渺 縹緗／缥缃 縹緲／缥缈 (piāomiǎo)

縹縹／缥缥 縹致／缥致 虛無縹緲／虚无缥缈 (xūwúpiāomiǎo)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03442
• “縹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

縹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. light blue

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kun: はなだ (hanada, 縹)

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Korean

Hanja

縹 • (pyo) (hangeul 표, revised pyo, McCune–Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

1. light blue silk
2. dim
3. misty