鈔

See also 钞

Translingual

Han character

鈔 (radical 167 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金火竹 (CFH), four-corner 8912₀)

1. paper money, bank notes
2. copy

References

• KangXi: page 1298, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40227
• Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4176, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9214

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鈔 (simplified 钞, Yale chaau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鈔 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: はさみとる (hasamitoru) (rare), かすめる (kasumeru) (rare), うつす (utsusu) (rare)

Noun

鈔 (hiragana しょう, romaji shō, historical hiragana せう)

1. an excerpt, an extract (writing)
2. an annotation
3. a unit of volume, equal to one tenth of a 勺 (shaku) and one hundredth of a 合 (gō), or approximately 1.8 millilitres

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Korean

Hanja

鈔 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鈔 (simplified 钞, pinyin chāo (chao1), Wade-Giles ch'ao¹)