曹

See also: 曺

Translingual

Han character

曹 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田日 (TWA), four-corner 5560₆, composition ⿱⿻一曲曰)

Derived characters

• 遭 漕 槽

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		曹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 曹
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

東 + 東 + 曰; the top two 東 have merged and now resemble 曲 with an extra stroke.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 曹

1. plaintiff and defendant
2. division department of the central government in ancient times
3. official
4. group, team
5. a surname
6. Cao, the name of a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 BC), covering roughly the area of modern-day Dingtao County in Heze, southwestern Shandong province

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #41170”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

曹

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cadet
2. friend

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa, 曹); ともがら (tomogara, 曹); へや (heya)

Compounds

• 軍曹(ぐんそう) (gunsō)
• 曹長(そうちょう) (sōchō)
• 御曹司(おんぞうし) (onzōshi)
• 重曹(じゅうそう) (jūsō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

• 曹溪宗 (조계종)

• 六曹 (육조)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 曹 (Tào)

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