醮

醮

醮 U+91AE, 醮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91AE ← 醭 [U+91AD] CJK Unified Ideographs 醯 → [U+91AF]

Translingual

Han character

醮 (radical 164, 酉+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一田人土火 (MWOGF), four-corner 1063₁, composition ⿰酉焦)

1. religious service
2. Taoist or Buddhist ceremony

References

• KangXi: page 1287, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40031
• Dae Jaweon: page 1788, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3598, character 10
• Unihan data for U+91AE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		醮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (焦) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
癄	*ʔsrews
焦	*ʔsew
蕉	*ʔsew
鷦	*ʔsew
僬	*ʔsew, *ʔsews, *zew
噍	*ʔsew, *zews
膲	*ʔsew
鐎	*ʔsew, *zew
蟭	*ʔsew
燋	*ʔsew, *ʔsewɢ
醮	*ʔsews
潐	*ʔsews
趭	*ʔsews, *zews, *lews
樵	*zew
譙	*zew
憔	*zew
劁	*zew, *zews
顦	*zew
嶕	*zew
撨	*zew, *seːw
穛	*ʔsreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiào (jiao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu³
• Min Nan (POJ): chiò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiào
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: chiao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiaw
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ziu³
    • Yale: jiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dziu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: jiu³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiò
    • Tâi-lô: tsiò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕio²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕio⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕio²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕio¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɤ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇu/, /t͡siᴇu^H/▼

Rime
Character	醮	醮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即消切	子肖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇu/	/t͡siᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛu/	/t͡siɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjæu/	/t͡sjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siaw/	/t͡siawH/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛu/	/t͡siɛuH/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛu/	/t͡sĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛu/	/t͡si̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāo	jiào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsews/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醮
Reading #	1/1
No.	6350
Phonetic component	焦
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	醮
Old Chinese	/*ʔsews/

Definitions

醮

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Compounds

二朝王醮 再醮 (zàijiào) 建醮

打醮 打醮水 改醮

設醮／设醮 醮壇／醮坛 齋醮／斋醮

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Japanese

Kanji

醮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō), じょう (jō)
• Kun: まつる (matsuru)

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Korean

Hanja

醮 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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