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爪

爪

See also: 爫, 瓜, 手, and 寸

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • 爫 – when used as a top radical

Han character

爪 (radical 87 爪+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹中人 (HLO), four-corner 72230)

  1. claw, nail, talon
  2. animal feet
  3. Kangxi radical #87, ⽖ ‎(“claw”).

References

  • KangXi: page 688, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19653
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2030, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+722A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爪

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 側絞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃˠauX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂᵚauX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃauX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂaɨwX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃauX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃauX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂauX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsræwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤ<r>uʔ/
English claw

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 爪
Reading # 1/1
No. 17658
Phonetic
component		 爪
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 爪
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsruːʔ/

Definitions

爪

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

爪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. nail, claw

Readings

Noun

爪 ‎(hiragana つめ, romaji tsume)

  1. a nail; a claw

Derived terms

Khitan

Numeral

爪 ‎(jau)

  1. hundred (100)

Korean

Hanja

爪 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爪 (trảo, trẩu, vuốt, trảu)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 爪
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (爪) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
抓 *ʔsruː, *ʔsruːʔ, *ʔsruːs
爪 *ʔsruːʔ
笊 *ʔsruːʔ, *ʔsruːs
找 *ʔsruːʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a hand grabbing from above (in earlier forms from side); compare 手, 寸, 九.

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