曹

See also: 曺

曹	U+66F9, 曹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66F9

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[U+66F8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

曺 →
[U+66FA]

Translingual

Han character

曹 (radical 73 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田日 (TWA), four-corner 5560₆, composition ⿱⿻一曲曰)

plaintiff and defendant
division department of the central government in ancient times
official
group, team
A surname.
Cao, the name of a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 BC), covering roughly the area of modern-day Dingtao County in Heze, southwestern Shandong province

Derived characters

遭漕槽

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		曹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 曹
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

東 + 東 + 曰; the top two 東 have merged and now resemble 曲 with an extra stroke.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cáo (cao²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cou⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhò
Min Bei (KCR): cǎu
Min Dong (BUC): cò̤
Min Nan (POJ): chô / chô͘
Wu (Wiktionary): zau (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: cáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ts'ao²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cou⁴
  - Yale: chòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhò
  - Hakka Romanization System: coˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: co²
  - IPA: /t͡sʰo¹¹/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cǎu
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sau²¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cò̤
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô
  - Tâi-lô: tsô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zooi
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡so²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tsôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ²⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: zau (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /z̻ɔ²³/

Middle Chinese: /d͡zɑu/▼

Rime
Character	曹
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
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

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*N-tsˤu/

(Zhengzhang): /*zluː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	曹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cáo
Middle Chinese	‹ dzaw ›
Old Chinese	/*N-tsˤu/
English	come together; pair
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	曹
Reading #	1/1
No.	1154
Phonetic component	曹
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曹
Old Chinese	/*zluː/
Notes	金文下非曰字，上從二東，象列置衆種子之器，乃槽初文

Definitions

曹

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Compounds

三曹對案／三曹对案
仙曹
倒曹
儀曹／仪曹
兒曹／儿曹
分曹
功曹 (gōngcáo)
印曹
坐曹
天曹
市曹 (shìcáo)
徐母罵曹／徐母骂曹
我曹

才當曹斗／才当曹斗
捉放曹
擊鼓罵曹／击鼓骂曹
敖曹
曹丘
曹全碑
曹劌論戰／曹刿论战
曹國舅／曹国舅
曹娥江
曹娥碑
曹族
曹柯之盟
曹洞宗

曹社之謀／曹社之谋
曹門／曹门
曹魏 (Cáowèi)
法曹
清曹峻府
爾曹／尔曹 (ěrcáo)
綁赴市曹／绑赴市曹 (bǎng fù shìcáo)
蕭曹／萧曹
蕭規曹隨／萧规曹随 (Xiāo-guī-Cáo-suí)
賊曹／贼曹
部曹
陰曹／阴曹
陰曹地府／阴曹地府

References

(Min Nan) “Entry #41170”, 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.

Japanese

Kanji

曹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

cadet
friend

Readings

Goon: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
Kan’on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
Kun: つかさ (tsukasa, 曹); ともがら (tomogara, 曹); へや (heya)

Compounds

軍 (ぐん)曹 (そう) (gunsō)
曹 (そう)長 (ちょう) (sōchō)
御 (おん)曹 (ぞう)司 (し) (onzōshi)
重 (じゅう)曹 (そう) (jūsō)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

曹溪宗 (조계종)

六曹 (육조)

Vietnamese

Han character

曹 (tào)

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