謠

See also: 谣 and 謡

謠	U+8B20, 謠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B20

← 謟
[U+8B1F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

謡 →
[U+8B21]

Translingual

Traditional	謠
Shinjitai	謡
Simplified	谣

Han character

謠 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月人山 (YRBOU), four-corner 0767₂, composition ⿰訁䍃)

References

KangXi: page 1176, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35832
Dae Jaweon: page 1641, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 4007, character 13
Unihan data for U+8B20

Chinese

trad.		謠/謡
simp.		谣
2nd round simp.		𫍚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
搖	lews, lew
遙	*lew
瑤	*lew
徭	*lew
鰩	*lew
媱	*lew
傜	*lew
颻	*lew
窰	*luː
愮	*lew
鷂	lew, lews
榣	*lew
嗂	*lew
猺	*lew
謠	*lew
鎐	*ʔsloːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lew) : semantic 言 + phonetic 䍃 ().

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yáo (yao²)
(Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): iâu
(Teochew, Peng'im): iao⁵ / iou⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
  - Wade–Giles: yao²
  - Yale: yáu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
  - Palladius: яо (jao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yáor
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yáor
  - Wade–Giles: yaorh²
  - Yale: yáur
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yaul
  - Palladius: яор (jaor)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jiu⁴
  - Yale: yìuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâu
  - Tâi-lô: iâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaau
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iau¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iau²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /iau²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: iao⁵ / iou⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iâu / iôu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iau⁵⁵/, /iou⁵⁵/

Note:

iao5 - Shantou;
iou5 - Chaozhou.

Middle Chinese: /jiᴇu/

Rime
Character	謠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘昭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/jæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaw/
Li Rong	/iɛu/
Wang Li	/jĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*law/
(Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	謠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáo
Middle Chinese	‹ yew ›
Old Chinese	/*law/
English	sing; song
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	謠
Reading #	1/1
No.	14718
Phonetic component	謠
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/
Notes	說文言上從肉會意徒歌，通作謠，肉非聲

Definitions

謠

(alt. form 䚻, 繇, 猶^‡) to sing without instruments
(alt. form 䚻, 繇) folk song; ballad
fake circulating words; false rumour

Compounds

歌謠／歌谣 (gēyáo)
民謠／民谣 (mínyáo)
民謠歌手／民谣歌手
民謠歌曲／民谣歌曲
民謠風／民谣风
童謠／童谣 (tóngyáo)
詬誶謠諑／诟谇谣诼

謠俗／谣俗
謠傳／谣传 (yáochuán)
謠言／谣言 (yáoyán)
謠言惑眾／谣言惑众
謠言紛飛／谣言纷飞
謠諑／谣诼 (yáozhuó)

謠諑紛傳／谣诼纷传
造謠／造谣 (zàoyáo)
造謠惑眾／造谣惑众 (zàoyáo huòzhòng)
造謠生事／造谣生事 (zàoyáoshēngshì)
闢謠／辟谣 (pìyáo)
風謠／风谣

Japanese

Shinjitai	謡
Kyūjitai	謠

Kanji

謠

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 謡)

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Readings

On (unclassified): よう (yō)
Kun: うたう (utau, 謠う)

Korean

Hanja

謠 (eumhun 노래 요 (norae yo))

Hanja form^? of 요 (“a song”).

Compounds

가요 (歌謠, gayo, “song”)

Vietnamese

Han character

謠: Hán Nôm readings: dao

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