糟糠

Chinese

		alcohol dregs; to waste; decayed	husk
trad. (糟糠)		糟	糠
simp. #(糟糠)		糟	糠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zāokāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠ ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou¹ hong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zāokāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠ ㄎㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zaokang
    • Wade–Giles: tsao¹-kʻang¹
    • Yale: dzāu-kāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzaukang
    • Palladius: цзаокан (czaokan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou¹ hong¹
    • Yale: jōu hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou¹ hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou¹ hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsaw khang

Rime
Character	糟	糠
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	作曹切	苦岡切
Baxter	tsaw	khang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saw/	/kʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑu/	/kʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāo	kāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou1	hong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluː  kʰlaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	糟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zāo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁu/
English	dregs
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	糟	糠
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1150	3983
Phonetic component	曹	庚
Rime group	幽	陽
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	糟	康
Old Chinese	/*ʔsluː/	/*kʰlaːŋ/
Notes		俗同穅

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 糟糠

1. distiller's grains and grain husk; chaff and bran; foodstuffs for the poor; frugal meals
2. (figurative) Short for 糟糠之妻 (zāokāngzhīqī, “wife who has shared her husband's hard lot”).

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)