戇
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Translingual
Han character
戇 (radical 61 心+24, 28 strokes, cangjie input X卜金心 (XYCP) or 卜金心 (YCP), four-corner 07338, composition ⿱贛心)
References
- KangXi: page 409, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11525
- Dae Jaweon: page 751, character 30
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2373, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6207
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 戇 |
|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (夅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 贛 | *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms |
| 灨 | *kluːmʔ, *kluːms |
| 竷 | *kʰluːms |
| 戇 | *kr'oːms, *qʰloːms |
| 洚 | *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ |
| 降 | *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ |
| 絳 | *kruːŋs |
| 栙 | *ɡruːŋ |
| 夅 | *ɡruːŋ |
| 跭 | *ɡruːŋ |
| 隆 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
| 癃 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
| 窿 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
| 霳 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kr'oːms, *qʰloːms) : phonetic 贛 (OC *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms) + semantic 心.
Etymology 1
| trad. | 戇 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 戆 | |
“Stupid”. Attested abundantly in Old Chinese, but obsolete in modern varieties. Compared with Proto-Mon *trɔɔʔ (> Mon သ္ဒိုဟ် (tɜ̀h, “foolish, stupid”)) by Schuessler (2007).
Pronunciation
Definitions
戇
Etymology 2
| trad. | 戇 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 戆 | |
| alt. forms | 怣 Min Nan 憨 Min Nan | |
Dialectally preserved word for “stupid”, attested since Middle Chinese. Relationship to Etymology 1 is unknown.
Compare Proto-Central Chin *ŋoŋ (“dull, stupid”) > Mizo ngawng (“dull, stupid”), Proto-Tai-Kadai *ŋV:ŋ.T (“stupid”) > Zhuang nguengh (“stupid”), as well as Old Khmer lṅaṅya (“stupid, obtuse, ignorant”) > Khmer ល្ងង់ (lngŭəng)).
Bauer (1996) suggests that this root may have entered Old Southern Chinese during the period of its early contact with Tai-speaking peoples in southern China.
Pronunciation
Definitions
戇
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Wu) stupid; foolish; simple; simple-minded
- (dialectal Mandarin) stubborn; bull-headed
- (dialectal Mandarin) frank; honest; straight
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 傻 (“stupid”) [map] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 傻 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 傻 |
| Taiwan | 傻 | |
| Tianjin | 傻 | |
| Xi'an | 瓜 | |
| Wuhan | 苕、哈、嘎 | |
| Chengdu | 哈、瓜 | |
| Yangzhou | 呆、木足、瓜 | |
| Hefei | 呆、傻 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 戇、傻 |
| Hong Kong | 傻、戇 | |
| Dongguan | 戇、傻、吽 | |
| Yangjiang | 傻、戇 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 蟬 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 傻、戇 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 戇 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 戇 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 戇 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 戇 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 戇 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 戇 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 傻、二不楞 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 賴、戇 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 戇 |
| Matsu | 戇 | |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 戇 |
| Quanzhou | 戇 | |
| Zhangzhou | 戇 | |
| Taipei | 戇 | |
| Kaohsiung | 戇 | |
| Penang | 戇 | |
| Chaozhou | 㦙、白仁 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 戇 |
| Suzhou | 戇 | |
| Wenzhou | 呆、憨 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 寶、醒 |
| Shuangfeng | 哈 | |
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
戇 • (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune–Reischauer tang, Yale tang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
戇 (tráng)
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