cáo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cao"

Mandarin

Alternative forms

cao — nonstandard

Romanization

cáo (cao², Zhuyin ㄘㄠˊ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傮
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘈
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嶆
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 曹
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 曺
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 槽
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漕
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 艚
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓸
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 螬
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褿
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鏪

Tày

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaːw˦]

Verb

cáo

to scrape
cáo niểng lếch ― to scrape iron rust

References

Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːw˨˩˦]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːw˦˥]

Etymology 1

Compare Muong cảo.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Could it be that this word was borrowed from 狗 (gǒu, “dog”)? The loanword couldn't replace the dominant native word (in this case, chó) and so was assigned to a similar animal. See also the case of borrowed hồng (“pink”), from 紅／红 (“red”), vs. native đỏ. However, it seems that foxes were more often associated with weasels instead of dogs.”

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cáo

Wikipedia ^vi

Noun

(classifier con) cáo • (𤞺)

a fox (Vulpes)
Cáo quần đảo Channel là loài cực kỳ nguy cấp.
The Channel Islands fox is critically endangered.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 誥.

Noun

cáo

(history) royal edict-like announcement
Bình Ngô đại cáo ― Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 告. Doublet of kiếu.

Verb

cáo

(literary, in certain expressions) to denounce
cáo quan về quê ở ẩn ― to resign from one's post as an official to come back to one's hometown

Romanization

cáo

Sino-Vietnamese reading of 告

Derived terms