槽

槽	U+69FD, 槽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-69FD

← 槼
[U+69FC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

槾 →
[U+69FE]

Translingual

Han character

槽 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田日 (DTWA), four-corner 4596₆, composition ⿰木曹)

Derived characters

𨘨

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 548, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15393
Dae Jaweon: page 935, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1275, character 12
Unihan data for U+69FD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		槽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 槽
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, *zluː): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː) – a wooden trough or vat.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cáo (cao²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cou⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhò

(Hailu, HRS): co

(Meixian, Guangdong): cau²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chô / chô͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): zo⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cáo
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻao²
  - Yale: tsáu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaur
  - Palladius: цао (cao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cáor
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˊㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cáor
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻao²-ʼrh
  - Yale: tsáur
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaurl
  - Palladius: цаор (caor)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cou⁴
  - Yale: chòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: cou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhò
  - Hakka Romanization System: co^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: co²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰo¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: co
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰo⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: cau²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰau¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô
  - Tâi-lô: tsô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zooi
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /t͡so²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tsôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ²⁴/

Note:

chô͘ - literary;
chô - vernacular (Quanzhou).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: zo⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsô
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁵⁵/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zau
  - MiniDict: zau^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zau
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zɔ²³/

Middle Chinese: tsaw, dzaw

Rime
Character	槽	槽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	作曹切	昨勞切
Baxter	tsaw	dzaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saw/	/d͡zaw/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sɑu/	/d͡zʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāo	cáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou¹	cou⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluː/, /*zluː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	槽	槽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1153	1156
Phonetic component	曹	曹
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	糟	曹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsluː/	/*zluː/

Definitions

槽

manger; trough from which livestock feeds
square or rectangular container
concave section; depression
ditch; trench; canal
(dialectal) Classifier for doors, windows or anything that partitions a room.
(dialectal) Classifier for period of pig raising from buying in to selling out.

Synonyms

(manger): 槽子 (cáozi)
(square or rectangular container): 槽子 (cáozi)
(concave section): 槽子 (cáozi)
(ditch): 槽子 (cáozi), 溝／沟 (gōu)

Compounds

三馬同槽 / 三马同槽
倒槽
優地槽 / 优地槽
凹槽 (āocáo)
吐槽
平槽
後槽 / 后槽
挑槽
搗槽 / 捣槽
杏仁槽
槽兒 / 槽儿
槽刨
槽化
槽坊 (cáofáng)
槽子 (cáozi)
槽寶 / 槽宝
槽櫪 / 槽枥 (cáolì)
槽牙 (cáoyá)
槽瓦
槽碓
槽糕 (cáogāo)
槽縫 / 槽缝
槽船
槽車 / 槽车
槽道
槽鋼 / 槽钢 (cáogāng)
槽鐵 / 槽铁
槽頭 / 槽头 (cáotóu)
槽齒 / 槽齿
機槽 / 机槽
檀槽
水槽 (shuǐcáo)
水落歸槽 / 水落归槽
沒槽道 / 没槽道
河槽 (hécáo)
浴槽
淚槽 / 泪槽
溜槽
當槽 / 当槽
背槽拋糞 / 背槽抛粪
胸槽
臥槽 / 卧槽 (wòcáo)
臥槽馬 / 卧槽马 (wòcáomǎ)
落槽
護槽 / 护槽
貯氣槽 / 贮气槽
走水槽
跳槽 (tiàocáo)
鍵槽 / 键槽
雙槽門 / 双槽门 (Shuāngcáomén)
食槽 (shícáo)
飼槽 / 饲槽 (sìcáo)
馬槽 / 马槽 (mǎcáo)
骨槽風 / 骨槽风
齒槽 / 齿槽

References

(Min Nan) “槽”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

槽

(Jōyō kanji)

(archaic) basin, tub
body of a traditional Japanese stringed instrument (such as biwa or kugo)

Readings

Go-on: ぞう (zō)
Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
Kun: かいばおけ (kaibaoke, 槽)、おけ (oke, 槽)、ふね (fune, 槽)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
槽
うけ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ke̞]

Noun

槽(うけ) • (uke)

(obsolete) tub-shaped container

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
槽
ふね Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 槽 – see the following entry.

【ふね】	[noun] 船, 舟, 槽: [from 712] a box for storing: [noun] 船, 舟, 槽: [from c. 934] a horse trough [counter] 船, 舟, 槽: items in a box-shaped container Alternative spellings 船, 舟

(This term, 槽, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)

References

“^△槽”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

槽: Hán Nôm readings: tàu

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