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糟

zāo

sediment, rotten, ruined

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 曹 represents the sound.

Components
米 meaning component

米  Meaning component

mǐ

  

rice

曹 sound component

曹  Sound component

cáo

  

plaintiff and defendant

Evolution

糟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
糟 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
糟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

糟  

zāo

sediment, dregs; pickle; dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined

Most common words with 糟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

糟糕

too bad

糟

dregs

乱七八糟

at sixes and sevens

一团糟

chaos

糟蹋

to waste

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤu

tsaw

zāo

dregs


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 71.8405% of movies

537th most common character in movies

1918th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7CDF

Shuowen

“糟，酒滓也。从米，曹聲。，籀文从酉。”


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