槽

槽

槽 U+69FD, 槽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-69FD ← 槼 [U+69FC] CJK Unified Ideographs 槾 → [U+69FE]

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: 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, 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
• Min Nan (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: tsʻaorh²
    • Yale: tsáur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaurl
    • Palladius: цаор (caor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cou⁴
    • Yale: chòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (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: /t͡sɑu/, /d͡zɑu/

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
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

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.

Synonyms

• (manger): 槽子 (cáozi)
• (square or rectangular container): 槽子 (cáozi)
• (concave section): 槽子 (cáozi)
• (ditch): 槽子 (cáozi), 溝／沟 (gōu)

Compounds

倒槽 凹槽 (āocáo) 吐槽 (tǔcáo) 平槽 挑槽 杏仁槽 槽刨 槽化 槽坊 (cáofáng) 槽子 (cáozi) 槽牙 (cáoyá) 槽瓦 槽碓 槽糕 (cáogāo) 槽船 槽道 檀槽 水槽 (shuǐcáo) 河槽 (hécáo)

浴槽 溜槽 胸槽 落槽 走水槽 跳槽 (tiàocáo) 食槽 (shícáo) 三馬同槽／三马同槽 優地槽／优地槽 後槽／后槽 搗槽／捣槽 槽兒／槽儿 槽寶／槽宝 槽櫪／槽枥 (cáolì) 槽縫／槽缝 槽車／槽车 槽鋼／槽钢 (cáogāng) 槽鐵／槽铁

槽頭／槽头 (cáotóu) 槽齒／槽齿 機槽／机槽 水落歸槽／水落归槽 沒槽道／没槽道 淚槽／泪槽 當槽／当槽 背槽拋糞／背槽抛粪 臥槽／卧槽 (wòcáo) 臥槽馬／卧槽马 (wòcáomǎ) 護槽／护槽 貯氣槽／贮气槽 鍵槽／键槽 雙槽門／双槽门 (Shuāngcáomén) 飼槽／饲槽 (sìcáo) 馬槽／马槽 (mǎcáo) 骨槽風／骨槽风 齒槽／齿槽

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #11143”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

槽

(common “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

槽: Hán Nôm readings: tàu

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