筇

See also: 笻

筇 U+7B47, 筇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B47 ← 筆 [U+7B46] CJK Unified Ideographs 筈 → [U+7B48]

Translingual

Han character

筇 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹一弓中 (HMNL) or 難難竹一弓 (XXHMN), four-corner 8812₇, composition ⿱𥫗邛)

1. bamboo name
2. bamboo staff

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 882, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25988
• Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2953, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7B47

Chinese

trad.		筇
simp. #		筇
alternative forms		笻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (工) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
缸	*kroːŋ, *ɡroːŋ
篢	*kluːmʔ, *koːŋ
贑	*kluːmʔ
涳	*ŋr'oːŋ, *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
江	*kroːŋ
肛	*kroːŋ, *qʰroːŋ
扛	*kroːŋ
杠	*kroːŋ
豇	*kroːŋ
茳	*kroːŋ
釭	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ, *kuːŋ
矼	*kroːŋ
玒	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ
虹	*kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ
腔	*kʰroːŋ
崆	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
羫	*kʰroːŋ
控	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
椌	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
悾	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
跫	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoŋ, *ɡoŋ
啌	*qʰroːŋ
谾	*qʰroːŋ, *qʰoːŋ
舡	*qʰroːŋ
缻	*ɡroːŋ
項	*ɡroːŋʔ
屸	*ɡ·roːŋ
功	*koːŋ
工	*koːŋ
疘	*koːŋ
魟	*koːŋ, *qʰoːŋ, *ɡoːŋ
攻	*koːŋ, *kuːŋ
愩	*koːŋ
碽	*koːŋ
貢	*koːŋs
羾	*koːŋs
空	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
箜	*kʰoːŋ
硿	*kʰoːŋ
埪	*kʰoːŋ
鵼	*kʰoːŋ
倥	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋʔ, *kʰoːŋs
鞚	*kʰoːŋs
叿	*qʰoːŋ
嗊	*qʰoːŋʔ
訌	*ɡoːŋ
紅	*ɡoːŋ
仜	*ɡoːŋ
葒	*ɡoːŋ
渱	*ɡoːŋ
鴻	*ɡoːŋ, *ɡoːŋʔ
汞	*ɡoːŋʔ
澒	*ɡoːŋʔ
鞏	*koŋʔ
巩	*koŋʔ
銎	*kʰoŋ, *qʰoŋ
恐	*kʰoŋʔ, *kʰoŋs
蛩	*ɡoŋ
筇	*ɡoŋ
桏	*ɡoŋ
邛	*ɡoŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qióng (qiong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qióng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyóng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiung²
    • Yale: chyúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyong
    • Palladius: цюн (cjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kung⁴
    • Yale: kùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjowng

Rime
Character	筇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠容切
Baxter	gjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guawŋ/
Li Rong	/ɡioŋ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qióng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kung4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	筇
Reading #	1/1
No.	4074
Phonetic component	工
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蛩
Old Chinese	/*ɡoŋ/
Notes	古作邛

Definitions

筇

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Compounds

• 扶筇

Japanese

Kanji

筇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)、く (ku)
• Kun: たけ (take)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
筇
つえ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 筇 – see the following entry.

【杖つえ】J [noun] staff, stick, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand [noun] something one leans on, a support [noun] a cane used for corporal punishment [noun] a particularly shaped stirring stick used to make New Year's porridge [noun] the stem of a pear [noun] (historical) a traditional unit of length [noun] (historical) approximately 3 meters [noun] (historical) seven 尺 (shaku, traditional Japanese foot) and five 寸 (sun, traditional Japanese inch), or approximately 2.3 meters [noun] (historical) a traditional unit of area [noun] (historical) one-fifth of a 段 (tan, traditional Japanese paddy size, roughly half of an English acre), or around 237m² Alternative spellings 丈, 仗

(This term, 筇, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)