縞

縞 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜口月 (VFYRB), four-corner 2092₇, composition ⿰糹高)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27777
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3438, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7E1E

Historical forms of the character 縞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kaːwʔ, *kaːws) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 高 (OC *kaːw).

Same word as 暠 (OC *kaːwʔ, “bright; white”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

縞

1. (historical) white raw silk
2. (literary) white
3. (literary) to shine upon

• → Tocharian B: *kaum ~ kom (“[a bolt of] unbleached silk”), kaumma ? pl (accusative)

しま (shima, “stripe”)

国訓(こっくん) (kokkun); hence perhaps an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 糹／纟 (“silk”) + semantic 高 (“high”), in reference to stripes on linens. Compare 鎬(しのぎ) (shinogi, “grind line”).

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. stripe

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu, 縞); しま (shima, 縞)

縞(しま) • (shima) 

1. stripe

縞 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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縞: Hán Việt readings: cảo[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of cảo (“white raw silk (historical)”).