曹

See also: 曺

Translingual

Etymology

東 + 東 + 曰 – the top 東 + 東 have merged, and resembles the unrelated 曲 with an extra 一 stroke.

Han character

曹 (radical 73 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田日 (TWA), four-corner 5560₆)

1. ministry officials
2. used as a surname
3. group, company

Derived characters

• 遭 漕 槽

References

• KangXi: page 502, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14297
• Dae Jaweon: page 876, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1511, character 6
• Unihan data for U+66F9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

曹 (Jyutping cou4, Yale chou4)

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Japanese

Kanji

曹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa), ともがら (tomogara), へや (heya)

Compounds

軍曹

曹長

御曹司

重曹

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Korean

Hanja

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

Compounds

曹溪宗 (조계종)

六曹 (육조)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

曹 (Pinyin cáo (cao2), Cáo (Cao2), Wade-Giles ts'ao², Ts'ao²)

• IPA^(key): tsʰɑʊ̯

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Min Nan

Hanzi

曹 (TLPA tsô (tso⁵))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曹 (tào)