Zi:肖
肖 [xiào] resemble; be/look like, worthy of; imitate; 肖像 xiàoxiàng portrait; (HDZ:) … [xiāo] 细微, 衰微; (姓) 蕭
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►⁶xiào 肖 {E} b.f. ①like; similar ►bīxiào 逼肖 ②likeness ►xiàoxiàng 肖像 ◆char. ►²shēngxiào 生肖
►Xiāo 肖 n. Surname
The Shuōwén Seal form of 肖() xiào ‘resemble (flesh/blood/kin); worthy of (one's forebears)’ combines 月(肉 ròu) ‘flesh’ (flesh & blood), and 小() xiǎo ‘small’ (phonosemantic); when there is little difference between parents and their young, clan members are as close as flesh & blood (骨肉相似), bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, the offspring are similar to and worthy of their forebears; later also wr. 俏, 霄.
Compare: 消() xiāo ‘eliminate/exhaust’; 宵() xiāo ‘night’; 销/銷() xiāo ‘smelt/melt’; 削() qiào ‘sheath/scabbard’.
Compare: 䏌() qì ‘pulse/tremble’; 屑(㞕) xiè ‘unsettled’.
Note: 肖 xiào ‘similar in looks; imitate’; 肖 xiāo ‘small/decline’ (HDZ).
“[肖] Like one's father; like, resembling — a 小 small one (a scion) of the same 肉 flesh and blood” —Karlgren(AD).
Note: 肖似, 肖物, 肖子, 子肖其父 xiāo/xiào (ABC/HDC).
HDZ: 肖 : xiào : (SW: 骨肉相似) 相貌相似 (cf. 俏, 霄); 仿效 • xiāo : 细微, 衰微 (cf. 銷: 小; 宵; 痟); (姓) 蕭
HDC: 骨肉 : 身体; (喻) 至亲, 父母兄弟子女等亲人; 同姓的人; 文章充实的内容
►references: Guǎngyùn:413.32; Karlgren:AD789,790,GSR1149g; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:3.2045.6; Mathews:2606; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:973.25; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:047.1.08; EDOC:1
►components: ⺌月小肉
►Cantonese: chiu-
Shuōwén: (肖)
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<comp char='小' uni='5C0F' variant='19' points='0,0 128,42' />
<comp char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='6,42 122,128' />
<!-- 2013-01-30T17:42:02Z -->
</cdl>
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<comp char='丷' uni='4E37' points='0,22 128,98' />
<!-- variant based on [U+2E8C](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='丷' uni='4E37' points='32,16 96,64' radical='D1 K12 Q'>
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<stroke type='p' points='128,6 84,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='16,4 112,128'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,35 128,69' />
<!-- variant based on [U+2E9D](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='4,4 124,128' radical='K0'>
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<stroke type='hzg' points='0,0 128,0 128,128 82,106' head='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+E6DA](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
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<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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