珧

珧 U+73E7, 珧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73E7 ← 珦 [U+73E6] CJK Unified Ideographs 珨 → [U+73E8]

Translingual

Han character

珧 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土中一人 (MGLMO), four-corner 1211₃, composition ⿰𤣩兆)

Derived characters

• 𫚅

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 731, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20968
• Dae Jaweon: page 1142, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1112, character 3
• Unihan data for U+73E7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		珧
alternative forms		䖴 𧎼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 珧
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
挑	*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮	*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃	*l'aːw
逃	*l'aːw
咷	*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗	*l'aːw
鞉	*l'aːw
駣	*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁	*sl̥ʰew
脁	*l̥ʰews
晁	*l'ew
兆	*l'ewʔ
旐	*l'ewʔ
狣	*l'ewʔ
鮡	*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗	*l'ewʔ
姚	*lew
珧	*lew
銚	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑	*lew
餆	*lew
筄	*lews
艞	*lews
佻	*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧	*l̥ʰeːw
朓	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣	*l̥ʰeːw
趒	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎	*l̥ʰeːw
眺	*l̥ʰeːws
覜	*l̥ʰeːws
頫	*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩	*l̥ʰeːws
跳	*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕	*l'eːwʔ
誂	*l'eːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lew) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáo (yao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu⁴

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• 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu⁴
    • Yale: yìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yew

Rime
Character	珧
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
Baxter	yew
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*lew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	珧
Reading #	1/1
No.	16863
Phonetic component	兆
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	遙
Old Chinese	/*lew/

Definitions

珧

1. shell from 蜃 (“Shen”) that can be used for jewellery
2. Used in 江珧 (jiāngyáo).

Compounds

• 弓珧
• 江珧 (jiāngyáo)
• 江珧柱 (jiāngyáozhù)
• 玉珧
• 蜃珧

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02614
• “珧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

珧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よう (yō)
• Kun: たいらぎ (tairagi)