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藻

藻

Translingual

Han character

藻 (radical 140 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿水口木 (TERD), four-corner 44194, composition ⿱艹澡)

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 藻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藻
Large seal script Small seal script
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, 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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sawX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 藻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤawʔ/
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. *[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 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​.

Derived terms

  • 褐藻
  • 辭藻／辞藻

Japanese

Kanji

藻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

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

Pronunciation

Noun

藻 ‎(hiragana も, romaji mo)

  1. alga, algae

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

藻 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

藻 (tảo, tang)

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