司空掾曹

Chinese

		Minister of Works	official	a company; a class; a generation a company; a class; a generation; surname
trad. (司空掾曹)		司空	掾	曹
simp. #(司空掾曹)		司空	掾	曹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīkōng yuàn cáo

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˋ ㄘㄠˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīkōng yuàn cáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˋ ㄘㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihkong yuàn cáo
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-kʻung¹ yüan⁴ tsʻao²
    • Yale: sz̄-kūng ywàn tsáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sykong yuann tsaur
    • Palladius: сыкун юань цао (sykun juanʹ cao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ɥɛn⁵¹ t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/

Noun

司空掾曹

1. (archaic) Assistant to Excellency of Works

Usage notes

This is the term used in the Mao Zonggang edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The original term used in the Records of the Three Kingdoms was 司空倉曹掾.

References

• 司空 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Government of the Han Dynasty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Luo, Guanzhong (2006) Annotated Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 14, page 178, note 35 (in Mandarin), →ISBN