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杖
杖
Translingual
Han character
杖 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木十大 (DJK), four-corner 45900, composition ⿰木丈)
References
- KangXi: page 512, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14469
- Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1159, character 2
- Unihan data for U+6756
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
杖 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (丈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 丈 | *daŋʔ |
| 杖 | *daŋʔ |
| 仗 | *daŋʔ, *daŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daŋʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 丈 (OC *daŋʔ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhóng
- Min Dong (BUC): tiông
- Min Nan (POJ): thn̄g / thňg / tiōng / tiǒng / tiāng
- Wu (Wiktionary): zan (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄤˋ
- Wade-Giles: chang4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janq
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zoeng6
- Yale: jeuhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng6
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕœːŋ²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhóng
- Hakka Romanization System: cong`
- Hagfa Pinyim: cong3
- IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: tiông
- IPA (key): /tʰuɔŋ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thn̄g
- Tâi-lô: thn̄g
- Phofsit Daibuun: tng
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰŋ̍²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰŋ̍²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰŋ̍³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰŋ̍³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thňg
- Tâi-lô: thňg
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰŋ̍²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiōng
- Tâi-lô: tiōng
- Phofsit Daibuun: diong
- IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiǒng
- Tâi-lô: tiǒng
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāng
- Tâi-lô: tiāng
- Phofsit Daibuun: diang
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaŋ²²/
- Note: thn̄g/thňg - vernacular; tiōng/tiǒng/tiāng - literary.
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: zan (T3)
- IPA (key): /z̻ã²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 杖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 直兩切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɖɨɐŋX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɖiɐŋX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ȡiɑŋX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɖɨaŋX/ |
| Li Rong |
/ȡiaŋX/ |
| Wang Li |
/ȡĭaŋX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ȡʱi̯aŋX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
zhàng |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 杖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16837 |
| Phonetic component |
丈 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
丈 |
| Old Chinese |
/*daŋʔ/ |
Definitions
杖
- walking stick
- staff; rod; cane; wand
- (historical) flogging with a stick
- † to flog (a prisoner)
- † to support; to prop
- † to hold; to grasp
- †Alternative form of 仗 (zhàng, “to rely on; to depend on”).
- (Min Dong) Classifier for segments of sugarcane.
Compounds
Descendants
- Mongolian: зан (zan), ᠵᠠᠩ (ǰang)
- Manchu: ᠵᠠᠩ (jang)
- Proto-Vietic: *coːŋʔ (“to lean on a stick”)
- Vietnamese: chống (“to lean on as prop; to prop”), gậy chống (“walking stick”)
Japanese
Kanji
杖
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
Noun
杖 (hiragana つえ, romaji tsue, historical hiragana つゑ)
Noun
杖 (hiragana じょう, romaji jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)
- jo, a fighting staff, a little over 4 尺 (shaku, “shaku, about 30 cm or a foot”) long, shorter than a bo (quarterstaff).
Compounds
- 錫杖 (shakujō): A khakkhara; Buddhist monk's "sounding staff".
Synonyms
Korean
Hanja
杖 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
杖 (trượng, rường)
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