盾
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Translingual
Han character
盾 (radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十月山 (HJBU), four-corner 72264, composition ⿸𠂆𥃭)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 801, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23171
- Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2475, character 5
- Unihan data for U+76FE
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
盾 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 盾 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (盾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 盾 | *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ |
| 遁 | *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns |
| 循 | *ljun |
| 揗 | *ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns |
| 楯 | *ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ |
| 輴 | *l̥ʰun |
| 腯 | *l'uːd |
| 鍎 | *l'uːd |
Pictogram (象形) — a shield (in the oracle bone script).
Etymology
- “shield”
- Compare Burmese လွှား (hlwa:, “oblong shield”) (Starostin). It is unclear whether Chepang [script needed] (dhəl) is related (Schuessler, 2007). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
- “dong”
- Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Chinese 銅 (MC duŋ, “copper”).

1849 “godless florin”
- “guilder; gulden; rupiah”
- Probably first referred to the two shilling coin, also known as the florin, which had four crowned cruciform shields with a rose in the centre. It was later used for the Dutch guilder, which replaced an older currency known as the florin. Since the guilder was used in Indonesia, when the rupiah replaced it, the Chinese name for the guilder continued to be used for the rupiah.
Pronunciation
Definitions
盾
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
盾
Readings
Alternative forms
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 盾 |
| たて Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
The nominalized form of the verb 立てる (tateru, “stand”).
Noun
- a weapon stood up or erected before one's body to block and protect from attacks; a shield
Korean
Hanja
盾 • (sun, don) (hangeul 순, 돈, McCune–Reischauer sun, ton, Yale swun, ton)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: thuẫn
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