# 藻

| 藻 | U+85FB, &#34299; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85FB |
| ← 藺 [U+85FA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 藼 → [U+85FC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

藻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿水口木 (TERD), four-corner 4419$_4$, composition ⿱艹澡)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32401
* Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3329, character 5
* Unihan data for U+85FB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藻 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 藻 | *ʔsaːwʔ |
| 澡 | *ʔslaːwʔ |
| 璪 | *ʔsaːwʔ |
| 繰 | *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw |
| 躁 | *ʔsaːws |
| 趮 | *ʔsaːws |
| 操 | *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws |
| 幧 | *sʰaːw, *sʰaw |
| 懆 | *sʰaːwʔ |
| 鄵 | *sʰaːws |
| 鐰 | *zaːw, *sʰaw |
| 臊 | *saːw, *saːws |
| 鱢 | *saːw |
| 燥 | *saːwʔ, *saːws |
| 噪 | *saːws |
| 髞 | *saːws |
| 喿 | *saːws |
| 譟 | *saːws |
| 劋 | *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ |
| 橾 | *soːwʔ, *srow |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsaːwʔ): semantic 艹 (“plant”) + phonetic 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zǎo (zao$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zou$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): chō̤
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chó
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$tsau
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zǎo
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zǎo
*** Wade–Giles: tsao$^3$
*** Yale: dzǎu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzao
*** Palladius: цзао (czao)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zou$^2$
*** Yale: jóu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzou$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zou$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sou̯³⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: chō̤
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰo³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó
*** Tâi-lô: tsó
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zoir
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡so⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡so⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡so⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ⁴¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^5$tsau
*** MiniDict: tsau$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^2$tsau
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ³⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsawX
Rime :
| Character | 藻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 子晧切 |
| Baxter | tsawX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡saw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sɑu$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zǎo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zou$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤawʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːwʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 藻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zǎo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsaw$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts]ˁawʔ/ |
| English | kind of water plant |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 藻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16565 |
| Phonetic component | 喿 |
| Rime group | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 早 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsaːwʔ/ |
| Notes | 説文同薻 |

### Definitions

藻
* algae
* other aquatic plants
* (literary) literary embellishment
* (literary) splendid, magnificent
* a surname

### Compounds

* 光藻
* 剛毛藻 / 刚毛藻 (gāngmáozǎo)
* 品藻
* 團藻 / 团藻 (tuánzǎo)
* 夜光藻 (yèguāngzǎo)
* 弓形藻 (gōngxíngzǎo)
* 懷風藻 / 怀风藻
* 才藻
* 披髮藻目 / 披发藻目
* 掞藻
* 掞藻飛聲 / 掞藻飞声
* 揚葩振藻 / 扬葩振藻
* 摛翰振藻
* 摛藻
* 摛藻雕章
* 文藻
* 斧藻
* 新月藻
* 松藻蟲 / 松藻虫
* 水藻 (shuǐzǎo)
* 波髮藻 / 波发藻
* 海藻 (hǎizǎo)
* 海藻蟲 / 海藻虫
* 狸藻 (lízǎo)
* 玉藻
* 甄藻
* 睿藻
* 矽藻
* 矽藻土
* 紅藻 / 红藻 (hóngzǎo)
* 細毛藻 / 细毛藻
* 綠藻 / 绿藻
* 翰藻
* 聚藻
* 芹藻
* 茨藻
* 藍綠藻 / 蓝绿藻 (lánlǜzǎo)
* 藍藻 / 蓝藻 (lánzǎo)
* 藍鼓藻 / 蓝鼓藻
* 藻井 (zǎojǐng)
* 藻厲 / 藻厉
* 藻思
* 藻梲 / 藻棁 (zǎozhuó)
* 藻玉
* 藻瑩 / 藻莹
* 藻紅素 / 藻红素
* 藻繪 / 藻绘
* 藻翰
* 藻荇
* 藻菌植物
* 蘋藻 / 𬞟藻
* 藻鏡 / 藻镜
* 藻類 / 藻类 (zǎolèi)
* 藻飾 / 藻饰
* 藻麗 / 藻丽
* 蘭藻 / 兰藻
* 裸藻
* 褐藻
* 褐藻膠 / 褐藻胶
* 詞藻 / 词藻 (cízǎo)
* 輪藻 / 轮藻
* 辭藻 / 辞藻 (cízǎo)
* 金魚藻 / 金鱼藻 (jīnyúzǎo)
* 金黃藻 / 金黄藻
* 鞭毛藻
* 馬尾藻 / 马尾藻 (mǎwěizǎo)
* 騁藻 / 骋藻
* 魚藻 / 鱼藻
* 鳧藻 / 凫藻 (fúzǎo)
* 鳳藻 / 凤藻
* 鴻藻 / 鸿藻 (hóngzǎo)
* 麗藻 / 丽藻 (lìzǎo)
* 鼓藻

### Further reading

* “藻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* seaweed, aquatic plant
* alga, algae

#### Readings

* Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
* Kun: も (mo, 藻, Jōyō)

#### Compounds

* 藻類(そうるい) (sōrui)
* 骨海藻(あらめ) (arame)
* 海藻(かいそう) (kaisō)
* 珪藻(けいそう) (keisō)
* 紅藻(こうそう) (kōsō)
* 才藻(さいそう) (saisō)
* 藍藻(らんそう) (ransō)
* 緑藻(りょくそう) (ryokusō)
* 稚海藻(わかめ) (wakame)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 藻
* も Grade: S
* kun'yomi

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) も [mò] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [mo̞]

### Noun

藻(も) • (mo)
* alga, algae
* seaweed

#### Synonyms

* 藻類(そうるい) (sōrui)

#### Derived terms

* 藻塩(もしお) (moshio)
* 藻玉(モダマ) (modama): St. Thomas bean
* 甘藻(アマモ) (amamo)
* 茨藻(イバラモ) (ibaramo)
* 梅鉢藻(うめばちも) (umebachimo)
* 海老藻(エビモ) (ebimo)
* 菊藻(キクモ) (kikumo)
* 黒藻(クロモ) (kuromo)
* 立藻(タチモ) (tachimo)
* 狸藻(タヌキモ) (tanukimo)
* 玉藻(たまも), 珠藻(たまも) (tamamo)
* 蔓藻(ツルモ) (tsurumo)
* 梅花藻(バイカモ) (baikamo)
* 総藻(フサモ) (fusamo)
* 松藻(マツモ) (matsumo)
* 毬藻(マリモ) (marimo)
* 狢藻(ムジナモ) (mujinamo)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 藻 (MC tsawX). Recorded as Middle Korean 조〯 (cwǒ) (Yale: cwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

### Hanja

Wikisource 藻 (eumhun 마름 조 (mareum jo))
* hanja form of 조 (“algae”)

#### Compounds

* 규조 (硅藻, gyujo)
* 녹조 (綠藻, nokjo)
* 사조 (詞藻/辭藻, sajo)
* 조류 (藻類, joryu)
* 조사 (藻辭, josa)
* 조정 (藻井, jojeong)
* 해조 (海藻, haejo)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

藻: Hán Nôm readings: tảo, tang

### Noun

藻
* chữ Hán form of tảo (“algae”).