霄

霄

See also: 㲵

霄 U+9704, 霄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9704 ← 霃 [U+9703] CJK Unified Ideographs 霅 → [U+9705]

Translingual

Han character

霄 (radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月火月 (MBFB), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱雨肖)

References

• KangXi: page 1374, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42290
• Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4064, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9704

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		霄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 霄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sew) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sêu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu¹
    • IPA: /seu̯²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /siᴇu/▼

Rime
Character	霄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相邀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	霄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiāo
Middle Chinese	‹ sjew ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ew/
English	sleet
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	霄
Reading #	1/1
No.	13741
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*sew/

Definitions

霄

1. sky
2. clouds; mist
3. Same as 宵 (xiāo, “night”)
4. A surname​.

Compounds

丹霄 九重霄 九霄 九霄雲外／九霄云外 (jiǔxiāoyúnwài) 凌霄 (língxiāo) 凌霄殿 凌霄花 氣凌霄漢／气凌霄汉 氣沖霄漢／气冲霄汉 氣踰霄漢／气踰霄汉 沖霄／冲霄

沖霄漢外／冲霄汉外 目視雲霄／目视云霄 碧霄 義氣干霄／义气干霄 聲徹雲霄／声彻云霄 聳壑昂霄／耸壑昂霄 迥隔霄壤 重霄 (chóngxiāo) 陵霄 雲霄／云霄 (yúnxiāo)

雲霄飛車／云霄飞车 (yúnxiāofēichē) 霄壤 霄壤之別／霄壤之别 霄壤之殊 霄漢／霄汉 (xiāohàn) 靈霄寶殿／灵霄宝殿 青霄 響徹雲霄／响彻云霄 高入雲霄／高入云霄 魄散九霄

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Japanese

Kanji

霄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: そら (sora)

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Korean

Hanja

霄 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霄 (tiêu)

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