蕭蕭

See also: 萧萧

Chinese

mournful mournful
trad. (蕭蕭)
simp. (萧萧)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter sew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seu/
Pan
Wuyun
/seu/
Shao
Rongfen
/seu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛw/
Li
Rong
/seu/
Wang
Li
/sieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
siu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sew › ‹ sew ›
Old
Chinese
/*sˁiw/ /*sˁiw/
English Artemisia 蕭蕭 neighing of horses

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12114
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːw/

Verb

蕭蕭

  1. (literary, onomatopoeia) to neigh
  2. (literary, onomatopoeia, of winds blowing in a desolate place, or of such a place itself) to make bleak sounds; to be bleak with wind
  3. (literary, onomatopoeia) the sound of falling leaves

Adjective

蕭蕭

  1. (literary) sparse; thinly spread; few and scattered; few and far between
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