兆

兆 U+5146, 兆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5146
← 充
[U+5145] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兇 →
[U+5147]

Translingual

Han character

兆 (radical 10, 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 32113, composition ⿻儿⿰冫⿱丿丶)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 124, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1347
  • Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 268, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5146

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 兆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 兆
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script

j01450

j01451

j01452

Small seal script

s02381

s02382

Transcribed ancient scripts

L34835

L34836

L16555

L16556

L16557

L16558

L16559

L16560

L16561

L16562

L16563

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
挑 *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮 *l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃 *l'aːw
逃 *l'aːw
咷 *l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗 *l'aːw
鞉 *l'aːw
駣 *l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
脁 *l̥ʰews
晁 *l'ew
兆 *l'ewʔ
旐 *l'ewʔ
狣 *l'ewʔ
鮡 *l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗 *l'ewʔ
姚 *lew
珧 *lew
銚 *lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌 *lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑 *lew
餆 *lew
筄 *lews
艞 *lews
佻 *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧 *l̥ʰeːw
朓 *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣 *l̥ʰeːw
趒 *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎 *l̥ʰeːw
眺 *l̥ʰeːws
覜 *l̥ʰeːws
頫 *l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩 *l̥ʰeːws
跳 *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕 *l'eːwʔ
誂 *l'eːwʔ

Pictogram (象形) – the cracks in a shell during fortune-telling, an omen.

Etymology

Compare Chepang ह्रावःसा (hrawʔ‑, “to forebode; to portend ill fortune”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 兆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 宵 (92)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 治小切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚiɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖiawX/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhào
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 兆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lr[a]wʔ/
English great number

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 兆
Reading # 1/1
No. 16856
Phonetic
component		 兆
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 肇
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ewʔ/

Definitions

兆

  1. omen
  2. (chiefly Taiwan) trillion (million million), tera-, 1012
  3. (Mainland China) (SI prefix) million, mega-, 106

Synonyms

  • (trillion): (Mainland China) 萬億／万亿
  • (tera-): (Mainland China) 太 (tài)
  • (mega-): (Taiwan) 百萬／百万 (bǎiwàn)

See also

Chinese numerals
104 108 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 1036 1040 1044
萬／万 億／亿 兆 (Taiwan) 京 (Taiwan) 垓 秭 穰 溝／沟 澗／涧 正 載／载
萬億／万亿
(Mainland China)		 億億／亿亿
(Mainland China)

Japanese

Kanji

兆

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. portent
  2. trillion, 1012
  3. sign
  4. omen
  5. symptoms

Readings

Compounds

Number

兆 (ちょう, chō)

  1. 1012, (US) trillion, (UK) billion
    ５０００ (ごせん)兆 (ちょう)円 (えん)欲 (ほ)しい！
    Go-sen-chō-en hoshii!
    I want 5,000,000,000,000,000 yen!

Korean

Hanja

兆 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)

  1. million, mega-
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