草具

Chinese

		grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty	tool; device; utensil tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument
trad. (草具)		草	具
simp. #(草具)		草	具

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎojù

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄩˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǎojù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǎojyù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao³-chü⁴
    • Yale: tsǎu-jyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaojiuh
    • Palladius: цаоцзюй (caoczjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tshawX gjuH

Rime
Character	草	具
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	采老切	其遇切
Baxter	tshawX	gjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/ɡɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/ɡioH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/ɡioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰawX/	/guə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/ɡioH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/ɡĭuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/gi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cǎo	jù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cou2	geoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤuʔ  [ɡ](r)o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːʔ  ɡos/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	草	草	具
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cǎo	cǎo	jù
Middle Chinese	‹ tshawX ›	‹ tshawX ›	‹ gjuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/	/*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/	/*[ɡ](r)o-s/
English	grass, plants	rough, coarse	arrange, provide
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	草	具
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	16547	7133
Phonetic component	早	具
Rime group	幽	侯
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	草	懼
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːʔ/	/*ɡos/
Notes	說文作艸

Noun

草具

1. coarse and poor-quality food; coarse fare; poor victuals

   • 秦王弗信，使舍食草具。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Qín wáng fú xìn, shǐ shè sì cǎojù. [Pinyin]

     The king of Qin did not trust him, and housed him at a lodging place for guests and fed him with poor fare.

Korean

Hanja in this term
草	具

Noun

草具 • (chogu) (hangeul 초구)

1. hanja form^? of 초구 (“coarse and poor-quality food; coarse fare; poor victuals”)