皂

See also: 皁
皂 U+7682, 皂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7682
← 皁
[U+7681] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 皃 →
[U+7683]

Translingual

Han character

皂 (radical 106, 白+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹日心 (HAP), four-corner 26711, composition ⿱白七)

Derived characters

References

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 皂
variant forms 皁
𣅖

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (早) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
早 *ʔsuːʔ
草 *sʰuːʔ
愺 *sʰuːʔ
騲 *sʰuːʔ
皁 *zuːʔ
皂 *zuːʔ

Variant form of 皁, in turn a variant form of 早 retaining its original sense (see there for more).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • chō/chǒ͘ - literary;
  • chǒ - vernacular;
  • chô - vernacular (俗).
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 皂
Reading # 1/1
No. 16551
Phonetic
component		 早
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 皁
Old
Chinese		 /*zuːʔ/
Notes 皁字注俗體，折筆以轉註分化

Definitions

皂

  1. black
    不分青紅皂白 / 不分青红皂白  ―  bùfēnqīnghóngzàobái  ―  (literally) to not distinguish between blue-green, red, black and white.
  2. Short for 皂斗 (“acorn”).
  3. Short for 皂荚 (“Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)”).
  4. soap
    Synonyms: 肥皂 (féizào)
    香皂  ―  xiāngzào  ―  scented soap
  5. † yamen runner
    Synonyms: 差役 (chāiyì)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 肥皂 (“soap”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 皂
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 肥皂
Mandarin Beijing 肥皂, 胰子
Taiwan 肥皂
Tianjin 肥皂, 胰子
Harbin 胰子, 大胰子, 肥皂
Jinan 肥皂, 胰子
Muping 胰子
Luoyang 胰子, 洋鹼
Wanrong 洋鹼
Xi'an 洋鹼
Xining 胰子, 肥皂
Xuzhou 胰子
Yinchuan 洋胰子, 肥皂
Ürümqi 肥皂, 胰子
Wuhan 肥皂
Chengdu 洋鹼, 肥皂
Guiyang 洋鹼, 肥皂
Liuzhou 鹼
Yangzhou 洋胰子, 肥皂
Nanjing 洋胰子, 肥皂
Hefei 肥皂, 洋胰子
Cantonese Guangzhou 番鹼, 鹼
Hong Kong 番鹼, 鹼
Taishan 番鹼
Dongguan 番鹼
Yangjiang 番鹼, 鹼
Gan Nanchang 肥皂, 洋鹼
Lichuan 鹼
Pingxiang 肥皂, 洋鹼
Hakka Meixian 番鹼
Yudu 胰子, 洋鹼
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 茶箍, 石鹼
Liudui (S. Sixian) 茶箍, 番鹼, 石鹼
Hsinchu (Hailu) 茶箍, 石鹼
Dongshi (Dabu) 茶箍, 石鹼
Hsinchu (Raoping) 茶箍, 石鹼
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 茶箍, 石鹼
Huizhou Jixi 肥皂, 洋肥皂, 洋肥珠
Jin Taiyuan 胰子, 洋胰子, 肥皂
Xinzhou 胰子, 洗衣裳胰子
Min Bei Jian'ou 胰仔
Min Dong Fuzhou 胰皂
Min Nan Xiamen 雪文, 油胰
Quanzhou 雪文
Zhangzhou 雪文
Taipei 雪文
Kaohsiung 雪文
Tainan 雪文
Taichung 茶箍
Hsinchu 茶箍
Lukang 雪文
Sanxia 雪文
Yilan 雪文
Kinmen 油胰, 雪文, 茶箍
Magong 雪文
Penang 雪文
Singapore 雪文
Philippines (Manila) 雪文
Chaozhou 餅藥
Haikou 番鬼鹼, 油糠, 番鬼油糠
Leizhou 鹼, 番鬼鹼
Pinghua Nanning 鹼, 洋鹼, 洗衫鹼
Wu Shanghai 肥皂
Suzhou 肥皂
Hangzhou 肥皂, 洋肥皂
Wenzhou 洋皂, 油皂, 番皂
Chongming 肥皂
Danyang 肥皂, 洋鹼
Jinhua 肥皂, 洋肥皂
Ningbo 肥皂
Xiang Changsha 肥皂, 胰子油
Shuangfeng 肥皂, 洋鹼
Loudi 肥皂, 洋鹼

Compounds
  • 不分皂白
  • 回黃倒皂／回黄倒皂
  • 指皂為白／指皂为白
  • 朱轓皂蓋／朱轓皂盖
  • 洗面皂
  • 洗髮皂／洗发皂 (xǐfàzào)
  • 牛驥同皂／牛骥同皂
  • 皂化 (zàohuà)
  • 皂白 (zàobái)
  • 皂白不分
  • 皂石 (zàoshí)
  • 皂礬／皂矾 (zàofán)

Vietnamese

Han character

皂: Hán Việt readings: tạo[1]

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References
  1. Trần (2004).
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