藻

藻

藻 U+85FB, 藻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85FB ← 藺 [U+85FA] CJK Unified Ideographs 藼 → [U+85FC]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		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, OC *ʔsaːwʔ) : semantic 艹 (“plant”) + phonetic 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǎo (zao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou²
• Min Dong (BUC): chō̤
• Min Nan (POJ): chó
• Wu (Wiktionary): tsau (T2)

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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
    • Yale: jóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chō̤
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰo³³/
• 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/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tsau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	藻
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): /*[ts]ˤawʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsawX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁawʔ/
English	kind of water plant
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	藻
Reading #	1/1
No.	16565
Phonetic component	喿
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	早
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaːwʔ/
Notes	説文同薻

Definitions

藻

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

Compounds

水藻 (shuǐzǎo) 海藻 (hǎizǎo)

紅藻／红藻 (hóngzǎo) 藻類／藻类 (zǎolèi)

褐藻 辭藻／辞藻 (cízǎo)

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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

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) も [mò] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [mo̞]

Noun

藻 (hiragana も, rōmaji 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

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

藻 (tảo, tang)

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