嘈

嘈 U+5608, 嘈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5608 ← 嘇 [U+5607] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘉 → [U+5609]

Translingual

Han character

嘈 (radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口廿田日 (RTWA), four-corner 6406₇, composition ⿰口曹)

References

• KangXi: page 205, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4175
• Dae Jaweon: page 427, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 674, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5608

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘈

Glyph origin

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 *zluː): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cáo (cao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chhāu / chô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cáo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cou⁴
    • Yale: chòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhāu / chô
    • Tâi-lô: tshāu / tsô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhau, zooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰaʊ²²/, /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰaʊ⁴¹/, /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaʊ²²/, /t͡so¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰaʊ³³/, /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰaʊ³³/, /t͡sɤ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡zɑu/

Rime
Character	嘈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zaw/
Li Rong	/d͡zɑu/
Wang Li	/d͡zɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cáo

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zluː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘈
Reading #	1/1
No.	1158
Phonetic component	曹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曹
Old Chinese	/*zluː/

Definitions

嘈

1. noisy

   嘈死人 [Cantonese]  ―  cou⁴ sei² jan⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  annoyingly noisy

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 吵 (“noisy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		吵
Mandarin	Taiwan	吵
	Singapore	吵, 吵鬧
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嘈
	Hong Kong	嘈
Min Nan	Xiamen	吵
	Quanzhou	吵
	Zhangzhou	吵

Compounds

• 亂嘈嘈／乱嘈嘈
• 勞嘈／劳嘈
• 吵嘈
• 嗷嘈
• 嘈亂／嘈乱 (cáoluàn)

• 嘈人
• 嘈吵
• 嘈嘈 (cáocáo)
• 嘈嚷 (cáorǎng)
• 嘈聒

• 嘈雜／嘈杂 (cáozá)
• 嚌嘈
• 嚌嚌嘈嘈
• 胡嘈

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Japanese

Kanji

嘈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さう (sau), そう (sō), せう (seu), ぜう (zeu)
• Kun: かまびすしい (kamabisushii)

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Korean

Hanja

嘈 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘈 (tào)

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