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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田日 (DTWA), four-corner 45966, composition)

  1. trough
  2. manger
  3. vat, tank
  4. groove
  5. a distillery

References

  • KangXi: page 548, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15393
  • Dae Jaweon: page 935, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1275, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+69FD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluːu
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluː, *zluː
*zluː
*zluː
*zluː, *zluːs
*zluː
*zluː
褿 *zluː
*zluː
*lju, *zluːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsluː, *zluː) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *zluː) – a wooden trough or vat.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (13) (15)
Final () (89) (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡saw/ /d͡zaw/
Li
Rong
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zɑu/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑu/ /d͡zʱɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zāo cáo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1153 1156
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsluː/ /*zluː/

Definitions

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. (archaic) basin, tub
  2. body of a traditional Japanese stringed instrument (such as biwa or kugo)

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jo) (hangeul , revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tàu)

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