縞

縞 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜口月 (VFYRB), four-corner 2092₇, composition ⿰糹高)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27777
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3438, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7E1E

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːwʔ, *kaːws): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 高 (OC *kaːw).

Same word as 暠 (OC *kaːwʔ, “bright; white”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

縞

1. (historical) white raw silk
2. (literary) white
3. (literary) to shine upon

• → Tocharian B: *kaum ~ kom (“[a bolt of] unbleached silk”), kaumma ? pl (accusative)

しま (shima, “stripe”)

国訓(こっくん) (kokkun); hence perhaps an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 糹 (“silk”) + semantic 高 (“high”), in reference to stripes on linens. Compare 鎬(しのぎ) (shinogi, “grind line”).

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. stripe

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: しろぎぬ (shiroginu, 縞)、しま (shima, 縞)

• (Tokyo) しま [shìmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɕima̠]

縞(しま) • (shima) 

1. stripe

縞 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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縞: Hán Việt readings: cảo^[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of cảo (“white raw silk (historical)”)