梢

梢 U+68A2, 梢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68A2
← 梡
[U+68A1]
CJK Unified Ideographs 梣 →
[U+68A3]

Translingual

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

梢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木火月 (DFB), four-corner 49927, composition ⿰木肖)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 530, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14866
  • Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1213, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+68A2

Chinese

trad. 梢
simp. # 梢
alternative forms 萷

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sreːw) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • sau - literary;
  • siau - vernacular.

Rime
Character 梢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠau/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨw/
Li
Rong
/ʃau/
Wang
Li
/ʃau/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
saau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 梢
Reading # 1/1
No. 13710
Phonetic
component
肖
Rime
group
宵
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
梢
Old
Chinese
/*sreːw/

Definitions

梢

  1. pointed tip of something long like a branch
  2. rudder

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 梢
Kyūjitai
[1]

梢󠄁
梢+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
梢󠄃
梢+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

梢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. treetop

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
梢
こずえ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Originally a compound of 木 (ko, “tree”, combining form) +‎ 末 (sue, “tip, end”).

The sue changes to zue as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) こずえ [kòzúé] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞zɨᵝe̞]

Noun

梢(こずえ) • (kozue) ←こずゑ (kozuwe)?

  1. a treetop
    Synonym: 木末 (konure)
Derived terms
Proverbs
  • 花(はな)は折(お)りたし梢(こずえ)は高(たか)し (hana wa oritashi kozue wa takashi)

Proper noun

梢(こずえ) • (Kozue) ←こずゑ (kozuwe)?

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
梢
しょう
Jinmeiyō
goon

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese 梢 (MC ʃˠau).

Proper noun

梢(しょう) • (Shō) ←せう (seu)?

  1. a female given name

References

  1. 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 1136 (paper), page 619 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

梢: Hán Nôm readings: sao

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