抄

Translingual

Han character

抄 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手火竹 (QFH), four-corner 5902₀, composition ⿰扌少)

Derived characters

• 𠳕, 𣴷, 莏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 420, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11863
• Dae Jaweon: page 767, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1836, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6284

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		抄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
觘	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬	*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒	*sʰroːʔ
吵	*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖	*sm̥ʰreːws
仯	*sm̥ʰreːws
眇	*mewʔ
渺	*mewʔ
杪	*mewʔ
秒	*mewʔ
篎	*mewʔ, *mews
妙	*mews
玅	*mews
釥	*sm̥ʰewʔ
小	*smewʔ
少	*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨	*m̥ʰjewʔ
尠	*senʔ, *smos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws) : semantic 手 + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 抄

1. to seize; to confiscate
2. to take a shortcut
3. to fold one's arms
4. (cooking) to briefly blanch in boiling water
5. to copy (by hand)
6. to transcribe
7. to plagiarize; to copy

   抄功課／抄功课 [Cantonese]  ―  caau¹ gung¹ fo³ [Jyutping]  ―  to plagiarize homework

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

抄

(Jōyō kanji)

1. unit of volume of about 1.804 mL, defined as one-tenth of 勺(しゃく) (shaku)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: とる (toru); かすめとる (kasumetoru, 抄とる); うつす (utsusu, 抄す)

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Korean

Hanja

抄 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

抄 (sao, xao)

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