糟

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See also: 蹧
糟 U+7CDF, 糟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CDF
← 糞
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 糠 →

Translingual

Han character

糟 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木廿田日 (FDTWA), four-corner 95966, composition ⿰米曹)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27104
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3158, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7CDF

Chinese

trad. 糟
simp. # 糟
2nd round simp. 𮇘
alternative forms 𥽾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 糟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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 *ʔsluː) : semantic 米 + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː). The original version is 𥽾. The radical of the rice perhaps is a reference to the liquor made out of fermented rice (see for instance 鬯) and the original meaning is "unfiltered", referred for instance to liquor and wine.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • cho/chau(Quanzhou) - literary;
  • chau - vernacular.
Note:
  • zao1 - literary;
  • zo1 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 糟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 作曹切
Baxter tsaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡saw/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sɑu/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sɑu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zou1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsaw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁu/
English dregs

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 糟
Reading # 1/1
No. 1150
Phonetic
component 		曹
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		糟
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsluː/

Definitions

糟

  1. alcohol dregs
  2. to preserve food in alcohol or alcohol dregs
  3. (informal) awful; messy; terrible; in bad shape
  4. to decay; to decompose; to spoil
  5. (literary, or in compounds) to damage; to cause destruction to; to harm

Synonyms

  • (awful):
Dialectal synonyms of 壞 (“bad; not good”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 惡
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 壞
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 壞, 賴
Taiwan 壞
Malaysia 壞
Singapore 壞
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 壞, 孬, 賴
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 瞎, 壞
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 壞
Wuhan 壞, 拐
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 壞
Hefei 壞
Cantonese Guangzhou 壞, 弊, 衰
Hong Kong 壞, 衰
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 衰
Yangjiang 壞
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 衰
Singapore (Guangfu) 衰
Gan Nanchang 壞
Hakka Meixian 壞
Wuhua (Meilin) 衰
Jin Taiyuan 賴, 壞
Northern Min Jian'ou 壞, 獰
Eastern Min Fuzhou 呆, 否
Southern Min Xiamen 歹, 䆀
Xiamen (Tong'an) 歹
Quanzhou 歹
Jinjiang 歹
Nan'an 歹
Shishi 歹
Zhangzhou 䆀
Zhao'an 䆀, 孬
Tainan 歹
Penang (Hokkien) 䆀, 歹
Singapore (Hokkien) 歹
Manila (Hokkien) 歹
Datian 歹
Chaozhou 孬
Shantou 孬
Jieyang 孬, 歹
Puning 孬
Singapore (Teochew) 歹, 孬
Leizhou 㾀
Wenchang 㾀
Haikou 㾀
Singapore (Hainanese) 㾀
Wu Shanghai 壞, 恘
Suzhou 壞, 恘
Ningbo 歪, 推扳, 嘸做
Wenzhou 毛
Xiang Changsha 壞, 拐
Shuangfeng 壞, 拐
  • (to decay):
  • (to damage):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

糟

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
  • Kan-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
  • Kun: かす (kasu, 糟)、もろみ (moromi, 糟)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
糟
かす
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 糟 – see the following entry.
【かすカス】
粕, 糟: in sake production, the dregs or lees left over after extracting the liquid from the fermented rice mash
粕, 糟: (figurative) a scolding, terrible criticism (only used in this sense in the set phrase 粕(かす)を食(く)う, 糟(かす)を食(く)う (kasu o kuu, literally “to eat the dregs”))
Alternative spelling
粕
(This term, 糟, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

糟: Hán Nôm readings: tao[1], tào[1]

  1. (literary, only used in compound tao khang) alcohol dregs

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
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