See also: 曺
TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
東 + 東 + 曰 – the top 東 + 東 have merged, and resembles the unrelated 曲 with an extra 一 stroke.
Han characterEdit
曹 (radical 73 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田日 (TWA), four-corner 55606)
- plaintiff and defendant
- division department of the central government in ancient times
- official
- group, team
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 502, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14297
- Dae Jaweon: page 876, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1511, character 6
- Unihan data for U+66F9
ChineseEdit
| - | ||
|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. |
曹 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
- Wade-Giles: ts'ao2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cou4
- Yale: chòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsou4
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (曹, reconstructed) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character (曹), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
|
Initial: 從 (15) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 昨勞切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /d͡zɑu/ | /d͡zʱɑu/ | /d͡zɑu/ | /d͡zɑu/ | /d͡zaw/ | /d͡zɑu/ | /d͡zɑu/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (曹, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 曹 | cáo | ‹ dzaw › | /*N-tsˤu/ | come together; pair | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 曹 | 1154 | 曹 | 幽 | 1 | 曹 | /*zluː/ | 金文下非曰字，上從二東，象列置衆種子之器，乃槽初文 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ReferencesEdit
JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
曹 (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)
- This entry needs a definition. Please add one, then remove
{{defn}}.