潮

潮 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水十十月 (EJJB), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵朝)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 650, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18277
• Dae Jaweon: page 1060, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1737, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6F6E

• Unihan data for U+2F90F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *r'ew): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew).

"Rising tide in the daytime" > "tide" (in general).

Derived from 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew, “morning”). Compare 汐 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening tide; ebb”) < 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening”).

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潮

1. tide

   漲潮／涨潮  ―  zhàngcháo  ―  (of tide) to rise

   潮起潮落  ―  cháoqǐcháoluò  ―  ebb and flow

2. wave

   思潮  ―  sīcháo  ―  zeitgeist

   移民潮  ―  yímín cháo  ―  wave of mass migration

3. damp; moist; humid

   受潮  ―  shòucháo  ―  to be made moist; to become damp

   地面很潮  ―  dìmiàn hěn cháo  ―  the floor is damp

   天氣又熱又潮／天气又热又潮  ―  tiānqì yòu rè yòu cháo  ―  the weather is hot and humid

4. (dialectal) wet

   潮爛泥／潮烂泥 [Suzhounese]  ―  ²zau ²le₆-gni₂ [Wugniu]  ―  mud (lit. "wet dirt")

5. short for 潮州 (Cháozhōu, “Chaozhou”)

   潮音  ―  cháoyīn  ―  Teochew pronunciation

   潮商  ―  cháo shāng  ―  Teochew merchant

   • 1896, 張蔭桓, 三洲日記, volume 6, page 45:

     寓暹華民潮為最，閩次之，廣肇海南次之，惠州嘉應又其次也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     寓暹华民潮为最，闽次之，广肇海南次之，惠州嘉应又其次也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Yù Xiān huámín Cháo wéi zuì, Mǐn cì zhī, Guǎng Zhào Hǎinán cì zhī, Huìzhōu Jiāyìng yòu qícì yě. [Pinyin]

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6. trendy; popular

   See also: 潮流

   潮語／潮语 [Cantonese]  ―  ciu⁴ jyu⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  trendy words; new slang

7. (colloquial, of quality or technique) poor; inferior; substandard; low-grade

• (tide): 潮汐 (cháoxī)
• (damp):

• (wet):

• (trendy):

• (poor):

• “潮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “潮”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “潮”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “Entry #6350”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “潮”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 180.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 潮)

1. tide
2. saltwater
3. opportunity

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kun: しお (shio, 潮, Jōyō)^{←しほ (sifo, 潮, historical)}、あさしお (asashio, 潮)^{←あさしほ (asasifo, 潮, historical)}、うしお (ushio, 潮)^{←うしほ (usifo, 潮, historical)}
• Nanori: いた (ita)、うしお (ushio)、しお (shio)、しおい (shioi)、しおり (shiori)

• Both 潮 and 汐 have the kun-readings of shio and ushio. Archaically, tides in the morning were called 朝潮 (asashio), the term for tides at nighttime was 夕汐 (yūshio). For tides at any time of day, 潮汐 (chōseki) may be used.

• (for tides in the evening): 汐

/sipo/ → /ɕifo/ → /ɕiwo/ → /ɕio/

From Old Japanese.

• (Tokyo) しお [shìóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕio̞]

潮(しお) • (shio) ^{←しほ (sifo)?}

1. a (morning) tide
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 18, poem 4045:
     ,^[3] text here

     於伎敝欲里(おきへより)美知久流(みちくる)之保(しほ)能(の)伊也麻之尓(いやましに)安我毛布支見我(あがもふきみが)弥不根可母加礼(みふねかもかれ) [Man'yōgana]

     沖(おき)辺(べ)より満(み)ち来(く)る潮(しほ)のいや増(ま)しに我(あ)が思(も)ふ君(きみ)が御(み)船(ふね)かもかれ [Modern spelling]

     okibe yori michikuru shio no iyamashi ni aga 'mou kimi ga mifune ka mo kare

     My lord[,] for whom I long more and more like the tide coming up from the offing, could that there be your boat?^[4]

2. seawater
3. a (usually favorable) chance or opportunity

   Synonym: 潮時 (shiodoki)

4. charm, attractiveness

   Synonym: 愛嬌 (aikyō)

5. (historical) in the Edo period, name of a courtesan rank in the Shinmachi district of Osaka, next to the 鹿恋 (kakoi).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:娼婦

潮(しお) • (Shio) ^{←しほ (Sifo)?}

1. a surname
2. a female given name

潮(しほ) • (Shiho) 

1. a surname
2. a female given name

/usipo/ → /usipo/ → /uɕifo/ → /uɕiwo/ → /uɕio/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

• (Tokyo) うしお [ùshíó] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ɕio̞]

潮(うしお) • (ushio) ^{←うしほ (usifo)?}

1. a (morning) tide
2. seawater
3. a tidal current

   Synonym: 潮流 (chōryū)

4. short for 潮汁 (ushiojiru): a thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

潮(うしお) • (Ushio) ^{←うしほ (Usifo)?}

1. a place name
2. a surname
3. a female given name

• “^△潮”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

From Middle Chinese 潮 (MC drjew).

Recorded as Middle Korean 뚀ᇢ (Yale: ttyow) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 됴 (tywo) (Yale: tyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

潮 (eumhun 밀물 조 (milmul jo))

1. hanja form^? of 조 (“tide”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

潮: Hán Nôm readings: triều, trào, xèo, rều

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