糟

糟 U+7CDF, 糟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CDF ← 糞 [U+7CDE] CJK Unified Ideographs 糠 → [U+7CE0]

糟 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木廿田日 (FDTWA), four-corner 9596₆, composition ⿰米曹)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27104
• Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3158, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7CDF

trad.		糟
simp. #		糟
2nd round simp.		𮇘
alternative forms		𥽾

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsluː) : semantic 米 + phonetic 曹 (OC *zluː). The original version is 𥽾. The radical of the rice perhaps is a reference to the liquor made out of fermented rice (see for instance 鬯) and the original meaning is "unfiltered", referred for instance to liquor and wine.

糟

1. alcohol dregs
2. to preserve food in alcohol or alcohol dregs
3. (informal) awful; messy; terrible; in bad shape
4. to decay; to decompose; to spoil
5. (literary, or in compounds) to damage; to cause destruction to; to harm

• (awful):

• (to decay):

• (to damage):

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: かす (kasu, 糟)、もろみ (moromi, 糟)

Kanji in this term
糟
かす Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 糟 – see the following entry.

【かすカス】 [noun] [from 934] 粕, 糟: in sake production, the dregs or lees left over after extracting the liquid from the fermented rice mash [noun] [from 1820] 粕, 糟: (figurative) a scolding, terrible criticism (only used in this sense in the set phrase 粕(かす)を食(く)う, 糟(かす)を食(く)う (kasu o kuu, literally “to eat the dregs”)) Alternative spelling 粕

(This term, 糟, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

糟 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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糟: Hán Nôm readings: tao^[1], tào^[1]

1. (literary, only used in compound tao khang) alcohol dregs