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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金尸十口 (CSJR), four-corner 87164, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1308, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40505
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1810, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4226, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+92F8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːls
*kaːls
*kɯ, *kas
*kaː, *kʰaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
*kaː, *kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːs
*kaːs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
*qʰaː, *ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
*ɡaːʔ
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *kas, *kʰa
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *ɡa
*kas
*kas
*kas
*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kas) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kɯ, *kas).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨə̆H/
Li
Rong
/kiɔH/
Wang
Li
/kĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjoH ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)a-s/
English saw (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4274
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kas/

Definitions

  1. a saw
  2. to saw
  3. to amputate

Compounds

  • 兩面鋸两面锯
  • 刀鋸刀锯 (dāojù)
  • 刀鋸不辭刀锯不辞
  • 刀鋸鼎鑊刀锯鼎镬
  • 前鋸肌前锯肌
  • 帶鋸機带锯机
  • 心如刀鋸心如刀锯
  • 手弓鋸手弓锯
  • 拉鋸拉锯
  • 拉鋸戰拉锯战
  • 線鋸機线锯机
  • 繩鋸木斷绳锯木断
  • 鉤爪鋸牙钩爪锯牙
  • 鋸嘴葫蘆锯嘴葫芦
  • 鋸大缸锯大缸
  • 鋸子锯子 (jùzi)
  • 鋸屑锯屑 (jùxiè)
  • 鋸床锯床
  • 鋸扒锯扒
  • 鋸斷锯断
  • 鋸末锯末 (jùmò)
  • 鋸牙锯牙
  • 鋸牙鉤爪锯牙钩爪
  • 鋸琴锯琴
  • 鋸蜂锯蜂
  • 鋸鮫锯鲛 (jùjiāo)
  • 鋸齒锯齿
  • 鋸齒草锯齿草
  • 鋼絲鋸钢丝锯
  • 電鋸电锯 (diànjù)
  • 音樂鋸音乐锯
  • 鼎鑊刀鋸鼎镬刀锯

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
のこぎり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

(hiragana のこぎり, romaji nokogiri)

  1. saw

Korean

Hanja

(geo) (hangeul , revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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