槽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 曹 – a wooden trough or vat.

Han character

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

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

槽 (Yale chou4)

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Japanese

Kanji

槽 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: かいばおけ (kaibaoke), おけ (oke)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

槽 (pinyin cáo (cao2), Wade-Giles ts'ao²)