See also:
U+7D10, 紐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D10

[U+7D0F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7D11]
U+F9CF, 紐
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9CF

[U+F9CE]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F9D0]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 120, +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓土 (VFNG), four-corner 27915, composition )

  1. knot
  2. button
  3. handle, knob
  4. tie

Derived characters edit

  • 𦶆(𬜺)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 916, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27268
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1346, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3377, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7D10

Chinese edit

trad.
simp.
alternative forms button

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *nuʔ) : semantic (silk) + phonetic (OC *n̥ʰuʔ).

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
VarietyLocation
MandarinBeijing/niou²¹⁴/
Harbin/niou²¹³/
Tianjin/niou¹³/
Jinan/ȵiou⁵⁵/
Qingdao/niou⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou/niou⁵³/
Xi'an/niou⁵³/
Xining/ȵiɯ⁵³/
Yinchuan/niəu⁵³/
Lanzhou/liou⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi/ȵiɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan/niəu⁴²/
Chengdu/ȵiəu⁵³/
Guiyang/niəu⁴²/
Kunming/niəu⁵³/
Nanjing/liəɯ²¹²/
Hefei/liɯ²⁴/
JinTaiyuan/niəu⁵³/
Pingyao/ɳəu⁵³/
Hohhot/niəu⁵³/
WuShanghai/ȵiɤ²³/
Suzhou/ȵiɤ³¹/
Hangzhou/ȵiø⁵³/
Wenzhou/ȵau³⁵/
HuiShexian/niu³⁵/
Tunxi/ȵiun²⁴/
XiangChangsha/ȵiəu⁴¹/
Xiangtan/ȵiəɯ⁴²/
GanNanchang
HakkaMeixian/ŋiu³¹/
Taoyuan/neu³¹/
CantoneseGuangzhou/nɐu³⁵/
Nanning/nɐu³⁵/
Hong Kong/nɐu³⁵/
MinXiamen (Hokkien)/liu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min)/nieu³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min)/niu²¹/
Shantou (Teochew)/nĩu⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese)/niu²¹³/
/nau³³/

Rime
Character
Reading #1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (136)
Tone (調)Rising (X)
Openness (開合)Open
Division ()III
Fanqie
BaxternrjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/niəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳuwX/
Li
Rong
/niuX/
Wang
Li
/nĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
niǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
nau5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading #1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
niǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*n<r>uʔ/
Englishfastener

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.1517
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuʔ/

Definitions edit

  1. button (Classifier: c)
  2. handle; knob
      ―  chèngniǔ  ―  lifting cord of a steelyard
  3. pivot; hub
      ―  shūniǔ  ―  hub
      ―  niǔdài  ―  bond; tie
  4. a surname
  5. transliteration for "New" in place names; e.g. 紐約纽约 (Niǔyuē), 紐西蘭纽西兰 (Niǔxīlán).

Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
ひも
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ひも
[noun] string
[noun] pimp (man who financially relies on managing prostitutes)
[noun] freeloader (one who financially relies on another person)
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(nyu>yu) (hangeul >, revised nyu>yu, McCune–Reischauer nyu>yu, Yale nyu>yu)

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Vietnamese edit

Chữ Hán edit

: Hán Nôm readings: nữu, néo, nới, nỡi, nĩu, nữi, nửi, nõi

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