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熬

熬

Translingual

Han character

熬 (radical 86 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土大火 (GKF) or 手大火 (QKF) or X手大火 (XQKF), four-corner 58334)

  1. cook down, to boil
  2. endure; to stay awake

References

  • KangXi: page 680, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1092, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2226, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+71AC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 熬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 熬
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (敖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
熬 *ŋaːw, *qaːw
敖 *ŋaːw
嗷 *ŋaːw
螯 *ŋaːw
聱 *ŋaːw, *ŋraːw, *ŋrɯw
驁 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鰲 *ŋaːw
遨 *ŋaːw
獒 *ŋaːw
滶 *ŋaːw
蔜 *ŋaːw
鷔 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鼇 *ŋaːw
謷 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws, *ŋraːw
嶅 *ŋaːw
嗸 *ŋaːw
摮 *ŋaːw
嫯 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
鏊 *ŋaːw, *ŋaːws
傲 *ŋaːws
磝 *ŋraːw

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 熬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaw/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑu/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 áo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 熬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 áo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngaw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋˤaw/
English fry, roast (v.)

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 熬 熬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 38 57
Phonetic
component		 敖 敖
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 敖 𤏶
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːw/ /*qaːw/
Notes 𤏶今字

Definitions

熬

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Japanese

Kanji

熬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

熬 • ‎(o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

熬 (ngao)

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