藻

Translingual

Etymology

A phonosemantic compound of Chinese semantic 艹 ("plant") + phonetic 澡 (zǎo, reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation *mə-tsˤawʔ)

Han character

藻 (radical 140 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿水口木 (TERD), four-corner 4419₄)

1. algae
2. other aquatic plants
3. (literary) literary embellishment
4. (literary) splendid, magnificent
5. A surname​.

References

• KangXi: page 1067, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32401
• Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3329, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85FB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

藻 (Jyutping zou2, Yale jou2)

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Japanese

Kanji

藻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: も (mo)

Noun

藻 (hiragana も, romaji mo)

1. alga, algae

Synonyms

• 藻類

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

藻 (Pinyin zǎo (zao3), Wade-Giles tsao³)

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Derived terms

• 水藻
• 海藻

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Middle Chinese

Han character

藻 (tzɑ̌u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

藻 (tảo, tang)

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