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皁

皁

See also: 皂

Translingual

Han character

皁 (radical 106 白+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹日十 (HAJ), four-corner 2640₀, composition ⿱白十)

black
police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them

Derived characters

唕

References

KangXi: page 786, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22684

Dae Jaweon: page 1201, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2644, character 3

Unihan data for U+7681

Chinese

simp. and trad.		皁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (早) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
早	*ʔsuːʔ
草	*sʰuːʔ
愺	*sʰuːʔ
騲	*sʰuːʔ
皁	*zuːʔ
皂	*zuːʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): zào (zao⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zou⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: zào
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˋ
  - Wade-Giles: tsao⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzaw
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zou⁶
  - Yale: jouh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzou⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /d͡zɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	皁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	昨早切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zaw^X/
Li Rong	/d͡zɑu^X/
Wang Li	/d͡zɑu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱɑu^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zào

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[dz]ˤuʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*zuːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	皁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zào
Middle Chinese	‹ dzaw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˤuʔ/
English	acorn, black-dyeing fruit
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	皁
Reading #	1/1
No.	16550
Phonetic component	早
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	皁
Old Chinese	/*zuːʔ/
Notes	說文作草，此由早加撇轉註分化

Definitions

皁

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Compounds

不分皁白
不問皁白／不问皁白
不知皁白
不管皁白
波斯皁莢／波斯皁荚
牛驥同皁／牛骥同皁
白皁
皁差

皁快
皁櫪／皁枥
皁白
皁白不分
皁絲麻線／皁丝麻线
皁纛
皁衣

皁衣人
皁袍
皁隸／皁隶
皁靴 (zàoxuē)
皁鞋
絲麻皁線／丝麻皁线
門皁／门皁

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

Japanese

Kanji

皁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: ぞう (zō)

Kan’on: そう (sō)

Kun: しもべ (shimobe)

Korean

Hanja

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

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