艚

艚 U+825A, 艚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-825A ← 艙 [U+8259] CJK Unified Ideographs 艛 → [U+825B]

Translingual

Han character

艚 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜廿田日 (HYTWA), four-corner 2546₆, composition ⿰舟曹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1012, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30523
• Dae Jaweon: page 1470, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3066, character 15
• Unihan data for U+825A

Chinese

trad.		艚
simp. #		艚

Glyph origin

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／形声, OC *zluː) : semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cáo (cao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): cò̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chô

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cao⁵

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cou⁴
    • Yale: chòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cò̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô
    • Tâi-lô: tsô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡so²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzaw

Rime
Character	艚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨勞切
Baxter	dzaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zaw/
Li Rong	/d͡zɑu/
Wang Li	/d͡zɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zluː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	艚
Reading #	1/1
No.	1159
Phonetic component	曹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曹
Old Chinese	/*zluː/

Definitions

艚

1. ^† boat used for transporting tax grain
2. ^† (by extension) small boat

Compounds

• 艚子 (cáozi)

 

Japanese

Kanji

艚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. boat

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: ふね (fune); こぶね (kobune)

Korean

Hanja

艚 (eum 조 (jo))

1. ship

Vietnamese

艚: Hán Việt readings: tào
艚: Nôm readings: tàu

Noun

艚

1. Nôm form of tàu (“boat, ship, vessel”).

Adjective

艚

1. (often derogatory) Nôm form of Tàu (“Chinese”).