澡

澡

澡 U+6FA1, 澡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FA1 ← 澠 [U+6FA0] CJK Unified Ideographs 澢 → [U+6FA2]

Translingual

Han character

澡 (radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水口口木 (ERRD), four-corner 3619₄, composition ⿰氵喿)

Derived characters

• 藻, 𮆼, 𤒕

References

• KangXi: page 652, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18379
• Dae Jaweon: page 1062, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1756, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6FA1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		澡

Glyph origin

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

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǎo (zao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou², cou³
• Min Nan (POJ): chó

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˇ
    • Wade–Giles: tsao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzao
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou², cou³
    • Yale: jóu, chou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou², tsou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou², cou³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵/, /t͡sʰou̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó
    • Tâi-lô: tsó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoir
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡so⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡so⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡so⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	澡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	子晧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sawX/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑuX/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-tsˤawʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslaːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	澡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsawX ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-tsˁawʔ/
English	wash (v.)
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	澡
Reading #	1/1
No.	16566
Phonetic component	喿
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	早
Old Chinese	/*ʔslaːwʔ/

Definitions

澡

1. to bathe; to wash

Compounds

冷水澡 搓澡 擦澡 (cāzǎo) 洗澡 (xǐzǎo)

澡堂 (zǎotáng) 澡盆 (zǎopén) 澡盤／澡盘

澡豆 澡身浴德 澡雪 (zǎoxuě)

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Japanese

Kanji

澡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. bathe; wash

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: あらう (arau, 澡う)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

澡 (tảo)

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References

• Nom Foundation