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曹
曹
See also: 曺
Translingual
Han character
曹 (radical 73 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田日 (TWA), four-corner 55606)
- plaintiff and defendant
- division department of the central government in ancient times
- official
- group, team
- a surname
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 502, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14297
- Dae Jaweon: page 876, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1511, character 6
- Unihan data for U+66F9
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
曹 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 曹
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|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (曹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 遭 | *ʔsluː |
| 糟 | *ʔsluː |
| 醩 | *ʔsluːu |
| 傮 | *ʔsluː |
| 槽 | *ʔsluː, *zluː |
| 曹 | *zluː |
| 螬 | *zluː |
| 漕 | *zluː, *zluːs |
| 嘈 | *zluː |
| 艚 | *zluː |
| 褿 | *zluː |
| 蓸 | *zluː |
| 慒 | *lju, *zluːŋ |
東 + 東 + 曰 – the top 東 + 東 have merged, and resembles the unrelated 曲 with an extra 一 stroke.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
- Wade-Giles: ts'ao2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cou4
- Yale: chòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsou4
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô
- Tâi-lô: tsô
- Phofsit Daibuun: zooi
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɤ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɤ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɤ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡so²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 曹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 昨勞切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡zɑu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡zɑu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡zɑu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡zaw/ |
| Li Rong |
/d͡zɑu/ |
| Wang Li |
/d͡zɑu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/d͡zʱɑu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
cáo |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 曹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
cáo |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzaw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*N-tsˤu/ |
| English | come together; pair |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 曹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1154 |
| Phonetic component |
曹 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
曹 |
| Old Chinese |
/*zluː/ |
| Notes | 金文下非曰字，上從二東，象列置衆種子之器，乃槽初文 |
Definitions
曹
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #41170”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
曹
Readings
- Goon: ぞう (zō), (historical) ざう (zau)
- Kan’on: そう (sō), (historical) さう (sau)
- Kun: つかさ (tsukasa), ともがら (tomogara), へや (heya)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
曹 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)
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Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
曹 (tào)
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