芍 · sháo
peony; water chestnuts
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
peony; water chestnuts
- Mandarin
- sháo
- Cantonese
- coek3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 芍 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
シャク チャク ケキ キャク キョウ テキ ジャク ギョウKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 작
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+828D
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 芍
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 勺 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 勺聲
Line 3338 · ⿱艹勺 · 勺聲 · source reference 0122050
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- hewX · 胡了 反切 · #1672
- Middle Chinese
- dzyak · 市若 反切 · #3548
- Middle Chinese
- tshjak · 七雀 反切 · #3554
- Middle Chinese
- trjak · 張略 反切 · #3561
- Middle Chinese
- tek · 都歷 反切 · #3674
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 11035 · hewX = 效開四上蕭匣 · dzyak = 宕開三入陽常 · tshjak = 宕開三入陽清 · trjak = 宕開三入陽知 · tek = 梗開四入青端
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- sháo
- kCantonese
- coek3
- kDefinition
- peony; water chestnuts
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 140.3
- kTGH
- 2013:3579
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- sháo,xiào,què,dì 53175.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- sháo 1008.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- sháo 327.130
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- sháo粵coek3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 胡了 市若 七雀 張略 都歷
- Kangxi positions
- 1018.120
- Guangyun positions
- 296.46 502.43 503.18 504.08 521.41
- Cangjie
- TPI
- Four-corner
- 4412.7