操 · cāo
conduct, run, control, manage
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
conduct, run, control, manage
- Mandarin
- cāo
- Cantonese
- cou1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 操 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
Kun’yomi · hiragana
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.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 조
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+64CD
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 16 · Unihan
- Residual
- 13
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
16 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 操
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tshaw · 七刀 反切 · #723
- Middle Chinese
- suwX · 蘇后 反切 · #1964
- Middle Chinese
- tshawH · 七到 反切 · #2813
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5911 · tshaw = 效開一平豪清 · suwX = 流開一上侯心 · tshawH = 效開一去豪清
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
- cāo
- kCantonese
- cou1
- kDefinition
- conduct, run, control, manage
- kTotalStrokes
- 16
- kRSUnicode
- 64.13
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:3317
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- cāo 31969.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- cāo 0106.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- cāo 032.080
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- cāo(133)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- cāo粵cou1 cāo,cào粵sou3,cou1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 七刀 蘇后 七到
- Kangxi positions
- 0458.150
- Guangyun positions
- 158.54 326.57 418.10
- GSR references
- 1134m
- Cangjie
- QRRD
- Four-corner
- 5609.4