曹 — Chinese character
曹
cáo
ministers, officials; a company; surname
- Pinyin
- cáo
- Radical
- 73 ⽈ (Say)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 日
- Japanese
- 曹 as a kanji
Common words with 曹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阴曹地府 (陰曹地府) | yīn cáo dì fǔ | netherworld; Kingdom of the Underworld |
| 阴曹 (陰曹) | yīn cáo | hell; the inferno |
| 市曹 | shì cáo | market; official in charge of small merchants |
| 我曹 | wǒ cáo | (archaic) we; us |
| 曹白鱼 (曹白魚) | cáo bái yú | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring |
| 绑赴市曹 (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 |
| 赴阴曹 (赴陰曹) | fù yīn cáo | to enter hell |
| 军曹鱼 (軍曹魚) | jūn cáo yú | cobia or black kingfish (Rachycentron canadum) |
English words written with 曹
曹 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.