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槽
槽
Translingual
Han character
槽 (radical 75 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田日 (DTWA), four-corner 45966, composition ⿰木曹)
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. | 
槽 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 槽
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|---|
| Small seal script | 
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (曹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| 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 | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsluː, *zluː) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – a wooden trough or vat.
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 | 槽 | 槽 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 從 (15) | 
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) | 豪 (89) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | 
| Division (等) | I | I | 
| Fanqie | 作曹切 | 昨勞切 | 
| 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 | 槽 | 槽 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| No. | 1153 | 1156 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
曹 | 曹 | 
| Rime group  | 
幽 | 幽 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
糟 | 曹 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*ʔsluː/ | /*zluː/ | 
Definitions
槽
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #11143”, 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
槽
Readings
Korean
Hanja
槽 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)
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Vietnamese
Han character
槽 (tàu)
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