鍬

See also: 锹
鍬 U+936C, 鍬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-936C
← 鍫
[U+936B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鍭 →
[U+936D]

Translingual

Han character

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

  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

trad. 鍬
simp. 锹

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

鍬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. hoe

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鍬
くわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/*kupa/ → /kufa/ → /kuwa/

Found from at least the late 900s, in the Utsubo Monogatari of the Heian period.[1]

Ultimate derivation unknown. Possibly derived from 食う (kuu, “to eat up; to bite into”), which has a 未然形 (mizenkei, “incomplete form”) of kuwa.

Pronunciation

Noun

鍬 (hiragana くわ, rōmaji kuwa, historical hiragana くは)

  1. a hoe

Usage notes

In compounds, this term may refer more broadly to similarly shaped tools for working the earth, such as a plough or a harrow.

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

鍬

Hanja

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

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

Synonyms

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

鍬 (thâu)

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