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場

場

See also: 场

Translingual

Han character

場 (radical 32 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土日一竹 (GAMH), four-corner 46127, composition ⿰土昜)

References

  • KangXi: page 234, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5278
  • Dae Jaweon: page 472, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 462, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5834

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湯 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪 *l̥ʰaːŋ
薚 *l̥ʰaːŋ
簜 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒 *l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩 *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙 *l̥ʰaːŋs
啺 *l'aːŋ
碭 *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸 *l'aːŋʔ
愓 *l'aːŋʔ
璗 *l'aːŋʔ
崵 *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿 *l'aːŋs
暢 *l̥ʰaŋs
畼 *l̥ʰaŋs
腸 *l'aŋ
場 *l'aŋ
傷 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤 *hljaŋ
觴 *hljaŋ
慯 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓 *hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲 *hljaŋ
陽 *laŋ
楊 *laŋ
揚 *laŋ
瘍 *laŋ
煬 *laŋ, *laŋs
鍚 *laŋ
暘 *laŋ
颺 *laŋ, *laŋs
昜 *laŋ
輰 *laŋ
敭 *laŋ
鰑 *laŋ
諹 *laŋ, *laŋs
瑒 *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉 *laŋ
餳 *ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aŋ) : semantic 土 ‎(“field”) + phonetic 昜 ‎(OC *laŋ).

Etymology 1

trad. 場
simp. 场
alt. forms 㘯
塲

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 場
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cháng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 場
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cháng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]raŋ/
English arena

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 場
Reading # 1/1
No. 14580
Phonetic
component		 昜
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 長
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aŋ/
Definitions

場

  1. open space; field; market
    農貿市場 / 农贸市场  ―  nóngmào shìchǎng  ―  farmer's market
    戰場 / 战场  ―  zhànchǎng  ―  battlefield
  2. large place used for a specific purpose; field; venue; course
  3. stage; platform; stand
  4. (physics) field (region affected by a particular force)
    磁場 / 磁场  ―  cíchǎng  ―  magnetic field
  5. Classifier for scenes (of a play).
  6. Classifier for sporting or recreational activities.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    打一場輸一場 [Cantonese, trad.]
    打一场输一场 [Cantonese, simp.]
    daa2 jat1coeng4 syu1 jat1coeng4 [Jyutping]
    play a round and lose a round
  7. Classifier for exams.

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 場
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cháng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 場
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cháng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]raŋ/
English arena

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 場
Reading # 1/1
No. 14580
Phonetic
component		 昜
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 長
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aŋ/
Definitions

場

  1. level open space (often as a threshing floor)
  2. (dialectal, colloquial) market
  3. Classifier for events and happenings: spell; bout

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 場 – see 塲.
(This character, 場, is a variant form of 塲.)

Japanese

Kanji

場

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Alteration from Old Japanese 庭 ‎(/*nipa/, “garden, yard”).

/*nipa/ > /*niba/ > /ba/

Pronunciation

Noun

場 ‎(hiragana ば, romaji ba)

  1. a place
  2. (physics) a field

Counter

場 ‎(hiragana ば, romaji -ba)

  1. sections of a play

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

Noun

場 ‎(hiragana じょう, romaji jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)

  1. a flattened area used for festivals or ceremonies
  2. a place where events are held

Suffix

場 ‎(hiragana じょう, romaji -jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)

  1. place, arena, course
Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

場 • ‎(jang) (hangeul 장, McCune-Reischauer chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

場 (trường, tràng, long)

  1. school

Compounds

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