杖
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Translingual
Han character
杖 (radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木十大 (DJK), four-corner 45900, composition ⿰木丈)
References
- KangXi: page 512, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14469
- Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1159, character 2
- Unihan data for U+6756
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
杖 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (丈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 丈 | *daŋʔ |
| 杖 | *daŋʔ |
| 仗 | *daŋʔ, *daŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daŋʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 丈 (OC *daŋʔ).
Pronunciation
Definitions
杖
- walking stick
- staff; rod; cane; wand
- (historical) flogging with a stick
- † to flog (a prisoner)
- † to support; to prop
- † to hold; to grasp
- † Alternative form of 仗 (zhàng, “to rely on; to depend on”).
- (Min Dong) Classifier for segments of sugarcane.
Compounds
Descendants
- Mongolian: зан (zan), ᠵᠠᠩ (ǰang)
- Manchu: ᠵᠠᠩ (jang)
- Proto-Vietic: *coːŋʔ (“to lean on a stick”)
- Vietnamese: chống (“to lean on as prop; to prop”), gậy chống (“walking stick”)
Japanese
Kanji
杖
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
- Goon: じょう (jō)←ぢやう (dyau, historical)
- Kan’on: ちょう (chō)←ちやう (tyau, historical)
- Kun: つえ (tsue, 杖)←つゑ (tuwe, historical)
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Noun
Etymology 2
Noun
杖 (hiragana じょう, rōmaji jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)
- jo, a fighting staff, a little over 4 尺 (shaku, “shaku, about 30 cm or a foot”) long, shorter than a bo (quarterstaff).
Compounds
- 錫杖 (shakujō): A khakkhara; Buddhist monk's "sounding staff".
Synonyms
Korean
Hanja
杖 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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