Translingual

Han character

縄 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火田中山 (VFWLU))

1. rope, string, cord
2. control

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 933, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27729
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3426, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7E04

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 繩)

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: なわ (nawa), ただ.す (縄す, tada.su)

Compounds

Etymology

From Old Japanese. Derived from verb 綯う ‎(nau, “to plait or twist together into twine or line”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) なわ​ [nàwáꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [na̠ɰᵝa̠]

Noun

縄 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 繩, hiragana なわ, romaji nawa, historical hiragana なは)

1. a rope, a flexible, heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3