# 肖翹
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiàoqiáo
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˋ ㄑㄧㄠˊ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiàoqiáo
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˋ ㄑㄧㄠˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siàociáo
*** Wade–Giles: hsiao$^4$-chʻiao$^2$
*** Yale: syàu-chyáu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiawchyau
*** Palladius: сяоцяо (sjaocjao)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: sjewH gjiew|gjiewH
Rime :
| Character | 肖 | 翹 | 翹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 群 (30) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) | 宵 (91) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | III |
| Fanqie | 私妙切 | 渠遙切 | 巨要切 |
| Baxter | sjewH | gjiew | gjiewH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siᴇu$^H$/ | /ɡiᴇu/ | /ɡiᴇu$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /siɛu$^H$/ | /ɡiɛu/ | /ɡiɛu$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjæu$^H$/ | /ɡjæu/ | /ɡjæu$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /siaw$^H$/ | /giaw/ | /giaw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /siɛu$^H$/ | /ɡiɛu/ | /ɡiɛu$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭɛu$^H$/ | /ɡĭɛu/ | /ɡĭɛu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /si̯ɛu$^H$/ | /gi̯ɛu/ | /gi̯ɛu$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiào | qiáo | jiào |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | siu$^3$ | kiu$^4$ | giu$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ew|[s]ew-s [ɡ]ew/
    (Zhengzhang): /*slew|slews ɡew|ɡews/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 肖 | 肖 | 翹 | 翹 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xiāo | xiào | qiáo | qiáo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sjew › | ‹ sjew$^H$ › | ‹ gjiew › | ‹ gjiew › |
| Old Chinese | /*[s]ew/ | /*[s]ew-s/ | /*[ɡ]ew/ (failure to palatalize is unexplained) | /*[ɡ]ew/ (failure to palatalize is unexplained) |
| English | disappear | resemble | long tail-feather | raise |
| 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 | 肖 | 肖 | 翹 | 翹 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13754 | 13755 | 14681 | 14682 |
| Phonetic component | 肖 | 肖 | 垚 | 垚 |
| Rime group | 宵 | 宵 | 宵 | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 宵 | 𥬇 | 翹 | 翹 |
| Old Chinese | /*slew/ | /*slews/ | /*ɡew/ | /*ɡews/ |
| Notes | 見莊子史記 | 從肉小會消瘠意， 小非聲，與後起從肉肖聲翟聲字同源 | | |

### Adjective

肖翹
* (literary, ideophonic, of living things) small and tenuous; tiny; petty
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gù shàng bèi rìyuè zhī míng, xià shuò shānchuān zhī jīng, zhōng duò sìshí zhī shī, zhuìnuò zhī chóng, xiàoqiào zhī wù, mòbù shī qí xìng. [Pinyin]
    It is just as if, above, the brightness of the sun and moon were darkened; as if, beneath, the productive vigour of the hills and streams were dried up; and as if, between, the operation of the four seasons were brought to an end: in which case there would not be a single weak and wriggling insect, nor any plant that grows up [lit: nor any tiny thing], which would not lose its proper nature.