騷

See also: 骚

騷	U+9A37, 騷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A37

← 騶
[U+9A36]

CJK Unified Ideographs

騸 →
[U+9A38]

Translingual

Traditional	騷
Shinjitai	騒
Simplified	骚

Han character

騷 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸火水戈戈 (SFEII), four-corner 7733₆, composition ⿰馬蚤)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1443, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44935
Dae Jaweon: page 1967, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4567, character 10
Unihan data for U+9A37

Chinese

trad.		騷
simp.		骚
alternative forms		騒

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (蚤) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
蚤	*ʔsuːʔ
慅	sʰuːʔ, suː
騷	*suː
搔	*suː
鰠	*suː
溞	*suː
颾	*suː
瘙	*suːs
瑵	*ʔsruːʔ
糔	*suʔ
鼜	*sʰɯːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *suː) : semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ). Sense “grieved, sad” is a phonetic loan.

Etymology 1

to harass, to bother: Schuessler, 2007 suggests it is a voiced variant of 搜 (sōu, “move”), p. 450.
grieved, sad: Of Austroasiatic origin. Schuessler, 2007 makes a connection to Old Khmer [script needed] (sook, “sorrow, affliction, grief, to be sad, to grieve”), p. 451. The loss of OC coda is attributed to the long vowel.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): sāo (sao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄠ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): sao¹
Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹
Eastern Min (BUC): sŏ̤
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sau / so / so͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): sao¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹sau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sao
  - Wade–Giles: sao¹
  - Yale: sāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
  - Palladius: сао (sao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: sao¹
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: sao
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sau⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sou¹
  - Yale: sōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sŏ̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /so⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
  - Tâi-lô: sau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: saw
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sau⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
  - Tâi-lô: so
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
  - Tâi-lô: soo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/

Note:

sau - vernacular;
so/so͘ - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: sao¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sau
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /sau³³/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹sau
  - MiniDict: sau^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹sau
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: saw

Rime
Character	騷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇遭切
Baxter	saw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/saw/
Li Rong	/sɑu/
Wang Li	/sɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/sɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤu/

(Zhengzhang): /*suː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	騷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sāo
Middle Chinese	‹ saw ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁu/
English	disturb
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	騷
Reading #	1/1
No.	16554
Phonetic component	蚤
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	騷
Old Chinese	/*suː/

Definitions

騷

to harass; to bother; to annoy; to disturb; to agitate
sad; grieved
coquettish; flirty; provocative
該個女個騷顯個，儂覅伉渠嬉。 [Wenzhounese, trad.]
该个女个骚显个，侬覅伉渠嬉。 [Wenzhounese, simp.]
From: 現代漢語方言大詞典, page 6123
That woman seems quite flirtatious, don't approach her.
Alternative form of 臊 (“having the smell like one of urine”)
(Sichuanese) at random
他在那兒騷説。 [Sichuanese, trad.]
他在那儿骚说。 [Sichuanese, simp.]
From: 現代漢語方言大詞典, page 6123
na¹ tai⁴ nar⁴ sau¹ sai² [Sichuanese Pinyin]
He's speaking at random.
(Lanyin Mandarin) flippant
娃娃們好好坐者，再嫑騷了。 [Lanyin Mandarin, trad.]
娃娃们好好坐者，再嫑骚了。 [Lanyin Mandarin, simp.]
From: 現代漢語方言大詞典, page 6123
Wáwá men hǎohǎo zuò zhě, zài 嫑 sāo le. [Pinyin]
Children, sit tight, stop mucking around.
(Xinjiang Mandarin) awesome
Synonym: 牛屄 (niúbī) (Standard)

Compounds

Etymology 2

From English show. Doublet of 秀 (xiù).

Alternative forms

(Hong Kong Cantonese) show, so

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sou¹
  - Yale: sōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

騷 (Cantonese)

show; performance
to show; to display

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai	騒
Kyūjitai	騷

Kanji

騷

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 騒)

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Readings

On (unclassified): そう (sō)
Kun: さわぐ (sawagu, 騷ぐ)

Korean

Hanja

騷 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

騷: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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