漕 — Chinese character
漕
cáo
canal, watercourse; to transport by sea
- Pinyin
- cáo
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 氵 曹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 曹
- Japanese
- 漕 as a kanji
Common words with 漕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 漕运 (漕運) | cáo yùn | (old) to transport by water; to ship grain as tax |
| 漕粮 (漕糧) | cáo liáng | grain transported by water (in ancient times) |
| 漕河 | cáo hé | waterway used for the transportation of grain (in ancient times) (esp. the Grand Canal 大运河 (Dà Yùn hé)) |
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.