# 謠

| 謠 | U+8B20, &#35616; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B20 |
| ← 謟 [U+8B1F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 謡 → [U+8B21] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 謠 |
| Shinjitai | 謡 |
| Simplified | 谣 |

### Han character

謠 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月人山 (YRBOU), four-corner 0767$_2$, composition ⿰訁⿱𱼀缶 or ⿰訁䍃)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1176, character 7
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35832
* Dae Jaweon: page 1641, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 4007, character 13
* Unihan data for U+8B20

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 搖 | *lews, *lew |
| 遙 | *lew |
| 瑤 | *lew |
| 徭 | *lew |
| 鰩 | *lew |
| 媱 | *lew |
| 傜 | *lew |
| 颻 | *lew |
| 窰 | *luː |
| 愮 | *lew |
| 鷂 | *lew, *lews |
| 榣 | *lew |
| 嗂 | *lew |
| 猺 | *lew |
| 謠 | *lew |
| 鎐 | *ʔsloːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lew): semantic 言 + phonetic 䍃.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yáo (yao$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): iâu
    (Teochew, Peng'im): iao$^5$ / iou$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yáo
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
*** Wade–Giles: yao$^2$
*** Yale: yáu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
*** Palladius: яо (jao)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yáor
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yáor
*** Wade–Giles: yao$^2$-ʼrh
*** Yale: yáur
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yaul
*** Palladius: яор (jaor)
*** Sinological IPA : /jaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jiu$^4$
*** Yale: yìuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jiu$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yiu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːu̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâu
*** Tâi-lô: iâu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iaau
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iau¹³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iau²³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /iau²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: iao$^5$ / iou$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iâu / iôu
*** Sinological IPA : /iau⁵⁵/, /iou⁵⁵/
* iao5 - Shantou;
* iou5 - Chaozhou.
* Middle Chinese: yew
Rime :
| Character | 謠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 餘昭切 |
| Baxter | yew |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiᴇu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiɛu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /jæu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jiaw/ |
| Li Rong | /iɛu/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭɛu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯ɛu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yáo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jiu$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*law/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lew/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 謠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yáo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yew › |
| Old Chinese | /*law/ |
| English | sing; song |
| 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 | 謠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14718 |
| Phonetic component | 謠 |
| Rime group | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遙 |
| Old Chinese | /*lew/ |
| Notes | 說文言上從肉會意徒歌， 通作謠，肉非聲 |

### Definitions

謠
* (alt. form 䚻, 繇, 猶 / 犹 (yóu)(historical dictionaries only)) to sing without instruments
* (alt. form 䚻, 繇) folk song; ballad
* fake circulating words; false rumour

### Compounds

* 歌謠 / 歌谣 (gēyáo)
* 民謠 / 民谣 (mínyáo)
* 民謠歌手 / 民谣歌手
* 民謠歌曲 / 民谣歌曲
* 民謠風 / 民谣风
* 童謠 / 童谣 (tóngyáo)
* 詬誶謠諑 / 诟谇谣诼
* 謠俗 / 谣俗
* 謠傳 / 谣传 (yáochuán)
* 謠言 / 谣言 (yáoyán)
* 謠言惑眾 / 谣言惑众
* 謠言紛飛 / 谣言纷飞
* 謠諑 / 谣诼 (yáozhuó)
* 謠諑紛傳 / 谣诼纷传
* 造謠 / 造谣 (zàoyáo)
* 造謠惑眾 / 造谣惑众 (zàoyáo huòzhòng)
* 造謠生事 / 造谣生事 (zàoyáoshēngshì)
* 闢謠 / 辟谣 (pìyáo)
* 風謠 / 风谣

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 謡 |
| Kyūjitai | 謠 |

### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 謡)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): よう (yō)
* Kun: うたう (utau, 謠う)

## Korean
### Hanja

謠 (eumhun 노래 요 (norae yo))
* hanja form of 요 (“a song”)

#### Compounds

* 가요 (歌謠, gayo, “song”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

謠: Hán Nôm readings: dao
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