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槽

cáo

Character

What 槽 means

1. trough
2. manger
3. groove
4. channel
5. Taiwancomputinghard drive

Example sentences

• 到洗涤槽去帮忙洗碗盘吧！
  Dào xǐdícáo qù bāngmáng xǐwǎn pán ba!
  Go and help wash up at the sink!
• 惠子巧妙地把碗碟迭起再拿到水槽。
  Huì zǐ qiǎomiàodi bǎ wǎn dié diéqǐ zài ná dào shuǐcáo.
  Keiko deftly piles up the dishes and takes them to the sink.
• 齐里需要小苏打，用来清洁他的厨房水槽。
  Ziri needs baking soda to clean his kitchen sink.
• 家里的洗碗机算是厨房水槽旁洗碗工的对手。
  Jiālǐ de xǐ wǎn jī suànshì chúfáng shuǐcáo páng xǐ wǎn gōng de duìshǒu.
  The washing-up machine at home was regarded as a rival to the worker at the kitchen sink.
• Tom把除了厨房水槽之外的所有东西都打包了。
  T om bǎ chúle chúfáng shuǐcáo zhīwài de suǒyǒu dōngxi dōu dǎbāo le.
  Tom seems to have packed everything but the kitchen sink.
• 当我试着把玻璃杯放进水槽时，我的手打了滑，玻璃杯打碎了。
  When I tried to set the glass down in the sink my hand slipped and it shattered to pieces.

Words starting with 槽

• 槽位cáo wèislot
• 槽孔cáo kǒngslot; groove; slotted hole
• 槽牙cáo yá(colloquial) molar; back tooth
• 槽车cáo chētanker (truck)
• 槽钢cáo gāngsteel groove; V-shaped steel bar
• 槽头cáo tóufeeding trough in stable
• 槽点cáo diǎn(slang) an aspect that invites ridicule…
• 槽齿目cáo chǐ mùThecodontia (obsolete taxonomic grouping of reptiles)
• 槽齿类cáo chǐ lèithecodont (type of reptile that existed in the Permian and Triassic Periods)
• 槽坊cáo fangbrewery; papermaking craft shop (in former times)

Words containing 槽

• 跳槽tiào cáoto leave one's job to take up a position elsewhere
• 水槽shuǐ cáosink
• 倒槽dǎo cáoto die out (of livestock)
• 卡槽kǎ cáo(electronics) card slot (for SD card, SIM card etc); clamping groove
• 吐槽tǔ cáo(colloquial) to complain humorously; to gripe about (sth) in a teasing way…
• 插槽chā cáoslot
• 河槽hé cáoriver bed; channel
• 沟槽gōu cáogroove; furrow; trench
• 胸槽xiōng cáocleavage (hollow between a woman's breasts)
• 卧槽wò cáo(net slang) (substitute for 我肏; WTF
• 血槽xuè cáofuller; blood groove (on a blade); (gaming) health bar
• 键槽jiàn cáo(engineering) keyway; key slot
• 食槽shí cáomanger
• 马槽mǎ cáomanger
• 吐槽大会Tù cáo Dà huìRoast! (PRC comedy series)
• 水落归槽shuǐ luò guī cáospilt water returns to the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong
• 溜槽liū cáosluice; chute
• 饲槽sì cáofeeding trough
• 洗涤槽xǐ dí cáowashing tank; sink
• 凹槽āo cáorecess; notch; groove
• 牛骥同槽niú jì tóng cáocow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are…
• 三马同槽sān mǎ tóng cáothree horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司马懿

Characters built on 曹

These share the phonetic component 曹 (cáo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 嘈cáobustling; tumultuous; noisy
• 漕cáoto transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal
• 螬cáoused in 蛴螬
• 蹧zāosee 蹧蹋
• 艚cáoseagoing junk

Characters that look like 槽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 操cāoto grasp; to hold; to operate
• 横hénghorizontal; across; crosswise
• 稽jī(bound form) to examine; to check (against records); (literary) to delay; to linger…
• 撸lū(dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down…
• 踵zhǒngto arrive; to follow; heel
• 槿jǐnHibiscus syriacus; transient

Sounds the same

Read cáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 嘈bustling; tumultuous; noisy
• 曹class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old)
• 漕to transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal
• 螬used in 蛴螬
• 蓸(a kind of herb)
• 艚seagoing junk