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皁

zào

Character

What 皁 means

1. black
2. police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them

Sounds the same

Read zào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 造to make; to build; to manufacture
• 燥dry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. sào) minced meat
• 皂soap; black
• 噪(literary) (of birds or insects) to chirp; (bound form) to make a cacophonous noise
• 灶kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen
• 躁impatient; hot-tempered
• 慥sincere
• 梍Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis); now written zào jiá 皂荚
• 煰dry (old variant of 燥
• 簉deputy; subordinate; concubine
• 趮easily provoked, hasty; fierce, cruel
• 唣used in 啰唣

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