cáo
trough
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 曹 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.9244% of movies
2607th most common character in movies
2993rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+69FD |
Shuowen | “槽,畜獸之食器。从木,曹聲。” |
Sources
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