澡

澡 U+6FA1, 澡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FA1 ← 澠 [U+6FA0] CJK Unified Ideographs 澢 → [U+6FA2]

Translingual

Han character

澡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水口口木 (ERRD), four-corner 3619₄, composition ⿰氵喿)

Derived characters

• 藻, 𮆼, 𤒕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 652, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18379
• Dae Jaweon: page 1062, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1756, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6FA1

Chinese

trad.		澡
simp. #		澡
2nd round simp.		⿰氵早
alternative forms		淉 𱧘 𱩍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 澡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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 / 形声, OC *ʔslaːwʔ): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 喿 (OC *saːws).

Etymology

Compare Mizo su, sûk (“to wash”), though the vowel in these forms do not correspond well with the Old Chinese form (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zǎo (zao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zao³

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): cou³ / zou²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): tau¹

• Gan (Wiktionary): zau³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): cau⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): zau²
• Eastern Min (BUC): chó̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chó / chó͘ / chò / cháu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cao³

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): cao³

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsau
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tsao³
    • Yale: dzǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzao
    • Palladius: цзао (czao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: zao³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zao
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sau⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cou³ / zou²
    • Yale: chou / jóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou³ / dzou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou³ / zou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯³³/, /t͡sou̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: tau¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau³³/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: zau³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sau²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰau⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zau²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sau⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chó̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó
    • Tâi-lô: tsó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoir
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡so⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chò
    • Tâi-lô: tsò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡so²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁵³/

Note:

• chó/chó͘ - literary;
• cháu - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cao³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshàu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰau²¹³/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: cao³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰau²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsau
    • MiniDict: tsau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zau³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɒu̯⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsawX

Rime
Character	澡
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-tsˤawʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslaːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	澡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsawX ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-tsˁawʔ/
English	wash (v.)
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	澡
Reading #	1/1
No.	16566
Phonetic component	喿
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	早
Old Chinese	/*ʔslaːwʔ/

Definitions

澡

1. (literary) to wash one's hands
2. to bathe; to wash

   洗澡  ―  xǐzǎo  ―  to take a bath

   澡堂  ―  zǎotáng  ―  bathhouse

Compounds

• 冷水澡
• 搓澡 (cuōzǎo)
• 擦澡 (cāzǎo)
• 沐澡
• 洗澡 (xǐzǎo)
• 澡刷
• 澡垢索疵
• 澡堂 (zǎotáng)
• 澡堂子 (zǎotángzi)
• 澡塘
• 澡形
• 澡心
• 澡洗
• 澡浴
• 澡溉
• 澡漱
• 澡滌 / 澡涤
• 澡濯
• 澡瀹
• 澡灑 / 澡洒
• 澡熨
• 澡瓶
• 澡用
• 澡盆 (zǎopén)
• 澡盤 / 澡盘
• 澡盥
• 澡祓
• 澡練 / 澡练
• 澡罐
• 澡蕩 / 澡荡
• 澡行
• 澡豆
• 澡身
• 澡身浴德
• 澡雪 (zǎoxuě)
• 濯澡
• 灌澡
• 盥澡

Descendants

• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ntsæwˣ (“to wash (hands)”)

Japanese

Kanji

澡

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bathe; wash

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: あらう (arau, 澡う)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

澡: Hán Nôm readings: tảo

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References

• Nom Foundation