臊

Translingual

Han character

臊 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月口口木 (BRRD), four-corner 7629₄)

1. rank
2. rancid
3. frowzy, fetid
4. bashful

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29955
• Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2116, character 10
• Unihan data for U+81CA

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Chinese

trad.		臊
simp. #		臊

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
藻	*ʔsaːwʔ
澡	*ʔslaːwʔ
璪	*ʔsaːwʔ
繰	*ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁	*ʔsaːws
趮	*ʔsaːws
操	*sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧	*sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆	*sʰaːwʔ
鄵	*sʰaːws
鐰	*zaːw, *sʰaw
臊	*saːw, *saːws
鱢	*saːw
燥	*saːwʔ, *saːws
噪	*saːws
髞	*saːws
喿	*saːws
譟	*saːws
劋	*ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾	*soːwʔ, *srow

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sào (sao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹ / sou³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sào
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sào
    • Wade–Giles: sao⁴
    • Yale: sàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: saw
    • Palladius: сао (sao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sou¹ / sou³
    • Yale: sōu / sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹ / sou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou¹ / sou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/, /sou̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chho
    • Tâi-lô: tsho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰo³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɤ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: saw

Rime
Character	臊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇遭切
Baxter	saw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/saw/
Li Rong	/sɑu/
Wang Li	/sɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/sɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m.s]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*saːw/, /*saːws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sāo
Middle Chinese	‹ saw ›
Old Chinese	/*[m.s]ˁaw/
English	fat of swine or dog
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	臊	臊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16577	16586
Phonetic component	喿	喿
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	騷	喿
Old Chinese	/*saːw/	/*saːws/
Notes	後通作騷	手冊所列新分化字

Definitions

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Compounds

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References

• “臊”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

臊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: あぶら (abura)

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Korean

Hanja

臊 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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