曹 - cáo - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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11 strokes
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曹

cáo

Definition

class
grade
generation
plaintiff and defendant (old)
government department (old)

Character Decomposition

Compounds (11)

遭

zāo

to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); to suffer; incident; to encounter; to come across; classifier (for events: time, turn, incident); measure word

槽

cáo

trough; manger; groove; channel; (Tw) (computing) hard drive

糟

zāo

dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined

嘈

cáo

bustling; tumultuous; noisy

漕

cáo

transport by water; watercourse; canal

螬

cáo

larva of Mimela lucidula

sea-going junk

finish, to go around

herring

see see 蹧蹋[zao1 ta4]

(a kind of herb)

Related words (5)

市曹

shì cáo

market; official in charge of small merchants

hell; the inferno

cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum)

to enter hell

netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld; Hades

Idioms (1)

綁赴市曹

bǎng fù shì cáo

to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution

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