藻

Translingual

Han character

藻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿水口木 (TERD), four-corner 4419₄, composition ⿱艹澡)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32401
• Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3329, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85FB

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Chinese

trad.		藻
simp. #		藻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
藻	*ʔsaːwʔ
澡	*ʔslaːwʔ
璪	*ʔsaːwʔ
繰	*ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁	*ʔsaːws
趮	*ʔsaːws
操	*sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧	*sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆	*sʰaːwʔ
鄵	*sʰaːws
鐰	*zaːw, *sʰaw
臊	*saːw, *saːws
鱢	*saːw
燥	*saːwʔ, *saːws
噪	*saːws
髞	*saːws
喿	*saːws
譟	*saːws
劋	*ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾	*soːwʔ, *srow

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsaːwʔ) : semantic 艹 (“plant”) + phonetic 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藻

1. algae
2. other aquatic plants
3. (literary) literary embellishment
4. (literary) splendid, magnificent
5. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

藻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: も (mo, 藻, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
藻
も Grade: S
kun'yomi

Noun

藻(も) • (mo) 

1. alga, algae

Synonyms

• 藻類(そうるい) (sōrui)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 藻玉(もだま) (modama): St. Thomas bean

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 藻 (tảo, tang)

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