Translingual

Han character

鍬 (radical 167 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹木火 (CHDF), four-corner 8918₀)

1. shovel

References

• KangXi: page 1315, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40643
• Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4231, character 16
• Unihan data for U+936C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 金 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 秋 ‎(OC *sʰɯw) – a metal shovel.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鍬

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō)
• Kan’yōon: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: すき (suki), くわ (kuwa)

Noun

鍬 ‎(hiragana くわ, romaji kuwa)

1. hoe

Korean

鍬

Hanja

鍬 • ‎(cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

1. (가래 초): a spade, shovel, ploughshare

Synonyms

• (spade, shovel, ploughshare): 鍤 (가래 삽), 鍬 (가래 초), 鏵 (가래 화), 鋘 (가래 화)

See also

• (spade, shovel, ploughshare): 鋤 (호미 서), 鉏 (호미 서), 錤 (호미 기), 鎡 (호미 자), 鎒 (호미 호), 钁 (괭이 곽), 钃 (괭이/호미 촉)

Vietnamese

Han character

鍬 (thâu)

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