糟
zāoTraditional: 糟
Translation
terrible, in a mess, rotten
Word origin
Originally the dregs of fermented grain, written with 米 (mǐ, rice) and 曹 (cáo, phonetic); from spoiled mash came the figurative sense of being in a mess or terrible.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 米 (mǐ, rice) + 曹 (cáo, phonetic)
Stroke order
糟
Examples
，！
Oh no, I forgot to bring my keys!
。
Things are getting worse and worse.
乱团。
His room is in a complete mess.
。
I did terribly in this exam.
，。
The weather is so terrible, we had better not go out.
糟 (zāo) means terrible, rotten or in a mess, and as an exclamation 糟了 signals that something has gone wrong. It originally referred to the dregs left from brewing.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 糟.
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