槽

Translingual

Han character

槽 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田日 (DTWA), four-corner 4596₆, composition ⿰木曹)

Derived characters

• 𨘨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 548, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15393
• Dae Jaweon: page 935, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1275, character 12
• Unihan data for U+69FD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		槽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 槽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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／形声, OC *ʔsluː, *zluː) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – a wooden trough or vat.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cáo (cao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chô / chô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cáo
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao²
    • Yale: tsáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
    • Palladius: цао (cao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cáor
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cáor
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao²-ʼrh
    • Yale: tsáur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaurl
    • Palladius: цаор (caor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cou⁴
    • Yale: chòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô
    • Tâi-lô: tsô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zooi
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ²⁴/

Note:

• chô͘ - literary;
• chô - vernacular (Quanzhou).

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• Middle Chinese: tsaw, dzaw

Rime
Character	槽	槽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	作曹切	昨勞切
Baxter	tsaw	dzaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saw/	/d͡zaw/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāo	cáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou1	cou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluː/, /*zluː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	槽	槽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1153	1156
Phonetic component	曹	曹
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	糟	曹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsluː/	/*zluː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 槽

1. manger; trough from which livestock feeds
2. square or rectangular container
3. concave section; depression
4. ditch; trench; canal
5. (dialectal) Classifier for doors, windows or anything that partitions a room.
6. (dialectal) Classifier for period of pig raising from buying in to selling out.

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #11143”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

槽

(Jōyō kanji)

1. (archaic) basin, tub
2. body of a traditional Japanese stringed instrument (such as biwa or kugo)

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: かいばおけ (kaibaoke, 槽)、おけ (oke, 槽)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 槽 (tàu)

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