棒

棒 U+68D2, 棒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68D2
← 棑
[U+68D1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棓 →
[U+68D3]

Translingual

Han character

棒 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木手大手 (DQKQ), four-corner 45953, composition ⿰木奉)

References

  • KangXi: page 532, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14929
  • Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1222, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+68D2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 棒
alt. forms 棓 “stick”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *broːŋʔ) : semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 奉 (OC *boŋʔ) – a wooden club.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 棒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 步項切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠʌŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚɔŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɔŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baɨwŋX/
Li
Rong		 /bɔŋX/
Wang
Li		 /bɔŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɔŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bàng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 棒
Reading # 1/1
No. 3207
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 㭋
Old
Chinese		 /*broːŋʔ/
Notes 說文作棓

Definitions

棒

  1. stick; club; truncheon
  2. to hit with a stick
  3. (colloquial) terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful
  4. (colloquial) hefty; strong

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese) (excellent): 正 (zhèng)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

棒

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. pole, stick, staff, rod, cane
  2. straight line

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
棒
ぼう
Grade: 6
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 棒 (MC bˠʌŋX). The goon pronunciation, so likely an earlier borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

棒 (hiragana ぼう, rōmaji bō, historical hiragana ばう)

  1. a staff, measuring 6 shaku (about 1.8 meters), used in martial arts such as 棒術 (bōjutsu)
  2. (by extension) stick-like or long, cylindrical item: pointer, pole, rod, etc.
    棒 (ぼう)を持 (も)つ
    bō o motsu
    to hold a pointer
    うまい棒 (ぼう)
    Umaibō
    Umaibō (a cylinder-shaped snack food)
    棒 (ぼう)のぼり
    bō-nobori
    pole climbing (found in elementary schools to train the strength of students)
  3. (by extension) a straight line; bar
  4. (by extension) state of being in a "straight line"; continuous
  5. taut leg muscles due to fatigue (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
  6. (Buddhism) staff used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

棒 • (bong)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 봉 (revised: bong, McCune–Reischauer: pong, Yale: pong)
    • Name (hangeul): 몽둥이
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Vietnamese

Han character

棒 (vổng, bọng, bộng, bổng, búng)

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