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兆 Definition

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Translingual

Etymology

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

A relatively meta (autological) character in oracle script: actual cracks in a shell signifying cracks.

Han character

兆 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中一山人 (LMUO), four-corner 32113)

  1. omen
  2. (China, Japan, Korea and Singapore) trillion (million million), tera-
  3. (China) mega-
  4. (Vietnam) million, mega-

Derived characters

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References

Cantonese

Hanzi

兆 (Yale siu6)

Japanese

Kanji

兆 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Number

兆 (ちょう, chō)

  1. 1012, (US) trillion, (UK) billion

Korean

Hanja

兆 (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho)

Mandarin

Hanzi

兆 (pinyin zhào (zhao4), Wade-Giles chao4)

Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

兆 (triệu, diệu, điềm, giệu)

 

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