勺 · sháo
spoon, ladle; unit of volume
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
spoon, ladle; unit of volume
- Mandarin
- sháo
- Cantonese
- zoek3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 勺 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 작
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+52FA
- Radical
- 勹 · 20
- Strokes
- 3 · Unihan
- Residual
- 1
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
3 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 勺
Character connections
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All 9 connected characters
Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsyak · 之若 反切 · #3541
- Middle Chinese
- dzyak · 市若 反切 · #3548
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 18332 · tsyak = 宕開三入陽章 · dzyak = 宕開三入陽常
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- sháo
- kCantonese
- zoek3
- kDefinition
- spoon, ladle; unit of volume
- kTotalStrokes
- 3
- kRSUnicode
- 20.1
- kTGH
- 2013:49
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- sháo,shuò,zhuó,dì 10254.140
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- sháo 1008.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- sháo 327.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- sháo粵zoek3,coek3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 之若 市若
- Kangxi positions
- 0150.190
- Guangyun positions
- 501.50 502.39
- GSR references
- 1120a
- Cangjie
- PI
- Four-corner
- 2732.0