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艚

cáo

Character

What 艚 means

1. seagoing junk

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
• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 嘈cáobustling; tumultuous; noisy
• 漕cáoto transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal
• 螬cáoused in 蛴螬
• 蹧zāosee 蹧蹋

Sounds the same

Read cáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

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