藻

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藻 U+85FB, 藻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85FB
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Translingual

Han character

藻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿水口木 (TERD), four-corner 44194, composition ⿱艹澡)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32401
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3329, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+85FB

Chinese

trad. 藻
simp. # 藻
alternative forms 薻
𧃡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (喿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藻 *ʔsaːwʔ
澡 *ʔslaːwʔ
璪 *ʔsaːwʔ
繰 *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁 *ʔsaːws
趮 *ʔsaːws
操 *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧 *sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆 *sʰaːwʔ
鄵 *sʰaːws
鐰 *zaːw, *sʰaw
臊 *saːw, *saːws
鱢 *saːw
燥 *saːwʔ, *saːws
噪 *saːws
髞 *saːws
喿 *saːws
譟 *saːws
劋 *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾 *soːwʔ, *srow

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsaːwʔ) : semantic 艹 (“plant”) + phonetic 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 藻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 子晧切
Baxter tsawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sawX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zou2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 藻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zǎo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsawX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁawʔ/
English kind of water plant

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 藻
Reading # 1/1
No. 16565
Phonetic
component 		喿
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		早
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsaːwʔ/
Notes 説文同薻

Definitions

藻

  1. algae
  2. other aquatic plants
  3. (literary) literary embellishment
  4. (literary) splendid, magnificent
  5. a surname

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

藻

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. seaweed, aquatic plant
  2. alga, algae

Readings

  • Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: も (mo, 藻, Jōyō)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
藻
も
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

藻(も) • (mo) 

  1. alga, algae
  2. seaweed

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 藻 (MC tsawX). Recorded as Middle Korean 조〯 (cwǒ) (Yale: cwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

藻 (eumhun 마름 조 (mareum jo))

  1. hanja form? of 조 (“algae”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

藻: Hán Nôm readings: tảo, tang

Noun

藻

  1. chữ Hán form of tảo (“algae”).
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