鈔

See also: 钞

Translingual

Han character

鈔 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金火竹 (CFH), four-corner 8912₀, composition ⿰釒少)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1298, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40227
• Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4176, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9214

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Chinese

trad.		鈔
simp.		钞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觘	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬	*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒	*sʰroːʔ
吵	*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖	*sm̥ʰreːws
仯	*sm̥ʰreːws
眇	*mewʔ
渺	*mewʔ
杪	*mewʔ
秒	*mewʔ
篎	*mewʔ, *mews
妙	*mews
玅	*mews
釥	*sm̥ʰewʔ
小	*smewʔ
少	*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨	*m̥ʰjewʔ
尠	*senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāo (chao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caau¹ / caau³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhau / chhà

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cao¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chao
    • Wade–Giles: chʻao¹
    • Yale: chāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chau
    • Palladius: чао (čao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: caau¹ / caau³
    • Yale: chāau / chaau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaau¹ / tsaau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cao¹ / cao³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːu̯⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰaːu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhau / chhà
    • Tâi-lô: tshau / tshà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhaw, zhax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰau⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰa²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰau³³/, /t͡sʰa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰau⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰa²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰau⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰa¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰau⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰa²¹/

Note:

• chhau - literary;
• chhà - vernacular (俗).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: cao¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshau
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰau³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhaew, tsrhaewH

Rime
Character	鈔	鈔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	初 (19)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	楚交切	初敎切
Baxter	tsrhaew	tsrhaewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠau/	/t͡ʃʰˠauH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚau/	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚauH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰau/	/t͡ʃʰauH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨw/	/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨwH/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰau/	/t͡ʃʰauH/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰau/	/t͡ʃʰauH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰau/	/ʈ͡ʂʰauH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāo	chào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caau1	caau3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sm̥ʰreːw/, /*sm̥ʰreːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鈔	鈔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13685	13691
Phonetic component	小	小
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	䜈	抄
Old Chinese	/*sm̥ʰreːw/	/*sm̥ʰreːws/
Notes	同抄	同抄

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鈔

1. paper money; banknotes
2. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 抄.

References

• “鈔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

鈔

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鈔
しょう Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 鈔 (MC tsrhaew|tsrhaewH).

Alternative forms

• 抄

Noun

鈔(しょう) • (shō) ^{←せう (seu)?}

1. an excerpt, an extract (writing)
2. an annotation
3. a unit of volume, equal to one tenth of a 勺 (shaku) and one hundredth of a 合 (gō), or approximately 1.8 millilitres

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Korean

Hanja

鈔 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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