抄

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抄 U+6284, 抄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6284
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 抅 →

Translingual

Han character

抄 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手火竹 (QFH), four-corner 59020, composition ⿰扌少)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 420, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11863
  • Dae Jaweon: page 767, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1836, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6284

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 抄
alternative forms 搜 Min Nan

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觘 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬 *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒 *sʰroːʔ
吵 *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖 *sm̥ʰreːws
仯 *sm̥ʰreːws
眇 *mewʔ
渺 *mewʔ
杪 *mewʔ
秒 *mewʔ
篎 *mewʔ, *mews
妙 *mews
玅 *mews
釥 *sm̥ʰewʔ
小 *smewʔ
少 *hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨 *m̥ʰjewʔ
尠 *senʔ, *smos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws): semantic 手 + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chhiau - vernacular;
  • chhau - literary.
Rime
Character 抄 抄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 楚交切 初敎切
Baxter tsrhaew tsrhaewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃʰˠau/ /t͡ʃʰˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚau/ /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃʰau/ /t͡ʃʰauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨw/ /ʈ͡ʂʰaɨwH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃʰau/ /t͡ʃʰauH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃʰau/ /t͡ʃʰauH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂʰau/ /ʈ͡ʂʰauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chāo chào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		caau1 caau3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 抄 抄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13684 13690
Phonetic
component 		小 小
Rime
group 		宵 宵
Rime
subdivision 		2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		䜈 抄
Old
Chinese 		/*sm̥ʰreːw/ /*sm̥ʰreːws/
Notes 說文作鈔，此爲分化字

Definitions

抄

  1. to attack; to raid; to plunder
  2. to seize; to confiscate
  3. to take a shortcut
    抄小路  ―  chāo xiǎolù  ―  to take a narrow shortcut
  4. to fold one's arms
  5. Alternative form of 焯 (“(cooking) to briefly blanch in boiling water”).
  6. to copy (by hand)
  7. to transcribe
  8. to plagiarize; to copy
    抄功課／抄功课 [Cantonese]  ―  caau1 gung1 fo3   ―  to plagiarize homework
  9. (colloquial) to grab
  10. (Hokkien) to seek; to look for

Synonyms

  • (to plagiarize):
  • (to grab): 抓 (zhuā)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

抄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. unit of volume of about 1.804 mL, defined as one-tenth of 勺(しゃく) (shaku)

Readings

Definitions

Kanji in this term
抄
しょう
Grade: S
goon
For pronunciation and definitions of 抄 – see the following entry.
【鈔しょう】H
an excerpt, an extract (writing)
an annotation
a unit of volume, equal to one tenth of a 勺 (shaku) and one hundredth of a 合 (gō), or approximately 1.8 millilitres
(This term, 抄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

抄 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

抄: Hán Nôm readings: sao, xao

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