操

操 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手口口木 (QRRD), four-corner 5609₄, composition ⿰扌喿)

• 𥩃 𧂈

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12806
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1969, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64CD

Historical forms of the character 操
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 喿 (OC *saːws).

操

1. to conduct
2. to run
3. to control
4. to manage
5. (military) to drill
6. to have somebody overwork
7. to speak (an accent)

   一名操內地口音的女子 [MSC, trad.]
   一名操内地口音的女子 [MSC, simp.]

   yī míng cāo nèidì kǒuyīn de nǚzǐ [Pinyin]

   a female with Mainland accent

8. calisthenics
9. exercise
10. (Cantonese) to train; to practice
11. a surname

操

1. conduct; behaviour

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. chastity
2. fidelity
3. honor
4. faith

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: あやつる (ayatsuru, 操る, Jōyō)、みさお (misao, 操, Jōyō)、とる (toru, 操る)

Compound of 御 (mi, “honorific prefix emphasizing beauty”) +‎ 青 (ao, “green/blue”), in the sense of the quality of an unchanging beautiful green in the face of anything, similar to an evergreen tree. The medial -s- may represent epenthesis between two vowels, or it may be cognate with Korean interfix ㅅ (-s-) used to mark possession, much like German -s-. See also 小雨 (kosame, “drizzle”), 霧雨 (kirisame, “drizzle”), 春雨 (harusame, “spring rain”), and 稲 (shine, “rice”).

• (Tokyo) みさお [mìsáó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [mʲisa̠o̞]

操(みさお) • (misao) 

1. fidelity, honor, constancy
2. chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's spouse)

操(みさお) • (Misao) 

1. a male given name

“to control; etc.”

From Middle Chinese 操 (MC tshaw, “to grasp”).

“conduct; behaviour”

From Middle Chinese 操 (MC tshawH, “principles”).

• (conduct; to control; to drill; to operate; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕo̞]
  • Phonetic hangul: [조]
• (in 操鍊, 操船, 操心, 操業, 操典, 操車, and 操舵):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕo̞(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [조(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

操

Wikisource

操 (eumhun 잡을 조 (jabeul jo))

1. hanja form^? of 조 (“conduct; behaviour”)
2. hanja form^? of 조 (“to control; to manage”)
3. hanja form^? of 조 (“to drill; to train”)
4. hanja form^? of 조 (“to operate; to manipulate”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

操: Hán Nôm readings: thao, tháo, thạo, xáo, thảo

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