趙
简 赵 · 繁 趙Meanings · ziu6
- to surpass (old)
- a surname
- the name of a ancient state
Meanings · tiu5
- to surpass (old)
- a surname
- the name of a ancient state
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 趙 Zhào CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙 Qián Zhào (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙 Hòu Zhào (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
- 趙 zhào CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto surpass (old)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zhao4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 9 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tiu5 · ziu6
Cantonese word readings for 趙. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (obsolete) to run; to gallop; to move quickly
- (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former city-state in Hongdong, Shanxi, China, under the Zhou)
- (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former kingdom in Shanxi and Hebei, China, during the Warring States)
- (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former kingdom in Hebei, China, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms)
- (historical) (～州) Zhao (a former prefecture of imperial China around Zhaozhou in modern Hebei)
- (～縣) Zhao (a county in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China)
- Zhao, a surname, the surname of the Song emperors, causing it to be listed first in the Baijiaxing
- (Internet slang, officially proscribed, often attributive) synonym of 中國共產黨 /中国共产党 (Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng), the Communist Party of China
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to weed the ground; to hoe
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