錨

See also: 锚

錨 U+9328, 錨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9328 ← 錧 [U+9327] CJK Unified Ideographs 錩 → [U+9329]

Translingual

Han character

錨 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金廿田 (CTW), four-corner 8416₀, composition ⿰釒苗)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1312, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40598
• Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4216, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9328

Chinese

trad.		錨
simp.		锚
alternative forms		𨭈

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 苗 (OC *mrew).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máo (mao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naau⁴ / maau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): màu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bâu / mâu / bâ / biâu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁵ / miao⁵ / miou⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máo
    • Wade–Giles: mao²
    • Yale: máu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mau
    • Palladius: мао (mao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naau⁴ / maau⁴
    • Yale: nàauh / màauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naau⁴ / maau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nao⁴ / mao⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːu̯²¹/, /maːu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: màu
    • Hakka Romanization System: mau^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mau²
    • Sinological IPA: /mau̯¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâu
    • Tâi-lô: bâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /bau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bau¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mâu
    • Tâi-lô: mâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: maau
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mãu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mãu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâ
    • Tâi-lô: bâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biâu
    • Tâi-lô: biâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biaau
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biau²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biau²⁴/

Note: bâ - vernacular, bâu/mâu/biâu - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁵ / miao⁵ / miou⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mâu / miâu / miôu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau⁵⁵/, /miau⁵⁵/, /miou⁵⁵/

Note: miao5/miou5 - alternative pronunciation (miou5 - Chaozhou).

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶mau
    • MiniDict: mau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mɔ²³/

Definitions

錨

1. anchor

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 錨 (“anchor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		錨, 船錨
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	錨
	Taiwan	錨, 船錨
	Langfang	錨
	Chengde	錨
	Chifeng	錨
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	錨
	Heihe	錨
	Qiqihar	錨
	Harbin	錨
	Jiamusi	錨
	Baicheng	錨
	Changchun	錨
	Tonghua	錨
	Shenyang	錨
	Jinzhou	錨
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	錨
	Tangshan	錨, 定石
	Cangzhou	錨
	Baoding	錨
	Shijiazhuang	錨
	Lijin	錨
	Jinan	錨
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Dalian	錨
	Dandong	錨
	Yantai	錨
	Qingdao	錨
	Zhucheng	錨
Central Plains Mandarin	Lingbao	錨
	Jining	錨
	Daming	錨
	Shangqiu	錨
	Yuanyang	錨
	Zhengzhou	錨
	Xinyang	錨
	Baihe	錨
	Xi'an	錨
	Baoji	錨
	Tianshui	錨
	Xining	錨
	Xuzhou	錨
	Fuyang	錨
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	錨
	Lanzhou	錨
	Hami	錨
	Ürümqi	錨
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	錨
	Nanchong	錨
	Dazhou	錨
	Hanyuan	錨
	Xichang	錨
	Zigong	錨
	Chongqing	錨
	Wuhan	錨
	Yichang	錨
	Xiangyang	錨
	Tianmen	錨
	Guiyang	錨
	Zunyi	錨
	Bijie	錨
	Liping	錨
	Zhaotong	錨
	Dali	錨
	Kunming	錨
	Mengzi	錨
	Guilin	錨
	Liuzhou	錨
	Jishou	錨
	Changde	錨
	Hanzhong	錨
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	錨
	Yangzhou	錨
	Lianyungang	錨
	Nantong	錨
	Anqing	錨
	Wuhu	錨
	Hefei	錨
	Hong'an	錨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	錨
	Hong Kong	錨
	Taishan	錨
Gan	Nanchang	錨
Hakka	Yudu	錨
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	錨
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	錨
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	錨
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	錨
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	錨
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	錨
Huizhou	Shexian	錨
Jin	Taiyuan	錨
	Yangyuan	錨
	Datong	錨
	Lüliang (Lishi)	錨
	Changzhi	錨
	Linhe	錨
	Hohhot	錨
	Pingshan	錨
	Zhangjiakou	錨
	Handan	錨
	Linzhou	錨
	Suide	錨
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	錨, 碇
	Fuzhou (Changle)	碇
	Fuqing	碇
	Yongtai	碇
	Gutian	碇
	Fu'an	碇
	Ningde	碇
	Shouning	碇
	Zhouning	碇
	Fuding	碇
Southern Min	Xiamen	碇, 船碇
	Quanzhou	碇, 船碇
	Zhangzhou	碇
	Zhao'an	碇
	Dongshan	碇
	Taipei (Wanhua)	碇
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	船碇
	Kaohsiung	碇
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	碇
	Yilan	碇
	Changhua (Lukang)	碇
	Taichung	沉重
	Taichung (Wuqi)	碇
	Tainan	碇
	Tainan (Anping)	碇
	Taitung	碇
	Hsinchu	碇
	Penghu (Magong)	碇
	Singapore (Hokkien)	碇
	Chaozhou	碇
	Shantou	碇
	Leizhou	碇
	Haikou	碇
Puxian Min	Putian	錨
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	錨
Wu	Shanghai	錨
	Wenzhou	碇

Compounds

• 冰錨／冰锚
• 拋錨／抛锚 (pāomáo)
• 拔錨／拔锚 (bámáo)
• 啟錨／启锚
• 船錨／船锚 (chuánmáo)
• 起錨／起锚 (qǐmáo)
• 錨具／锚具
• 錨冰／锚冰
• 錨地／锚地 (máodì)
• 錨泊地／锚泊地
• 錨燈／锚灯
• 錨爪／锚爪
• 錨綱／锚纲
• 錨繩／锚绳
• 錨蟲／锚虫
• 錨鏈／锚链
• 鐵錨／铁锚

 

References

• (Min Nan) “Query for 錨”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

錨

(Hyōgai kanji)

錨 (ikari): a diagram of an old Russian anchor design, very similar to traditional Japanese anchor designs.

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: びょう (byō)^{←べう (beu, historical)}
• Kun: いかり (ikari, 錨)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
錨
いかり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
碇 𨦈 (rare) 矴 (rare) 重石 (rare) 沈石 (rare)

Derivation ultimately unknown. Possibly cognate with or derived from Old Japanese 海石 (ikuri, “sea rock, outcrop at sea”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Appears in the Harima Fudoki of 715 CE.

Reconstructed as deriving from Proto-Japonic *ikari.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いかり [ìkárí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ika̠ɾʲi]

Noun

錨(いかり) • (ikari) 

1. (nautical) an anchor (tool to moor a vessel into the sea bottom)
2. an anchor-shaped tool on the end of a rope or other line, used to secure the line
3. an anchor-shaped grapnel
4. a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) in the shape of an anchor

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 錨酢(いかりかた)漿(ばみ) (ikari katabami)
• 錨氷(いかりこおり) (ikari kōri)
• 錨草(いかりそう) (ikarisō)
• 錨(いかり)星(ぼし) (ikariboshi)
• 錨(いかり)虫(むし) (ikarimushi)
• 鉄(かな)錨(いかり) (kanaikari)

Idioms

• 錨(いかり)を打(う)つ (ikari o utsu)
• 錨(いかり)を下(お)ろす (ikari o orosu)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
錨
びょう Hyōgai
kan'on

/beu/ → */bɨəː/ → /bjoː/

From Middle Chinese 錨 (MC *mˠiᴇu).

Affix

錨(びょう) • (byō) ^{←べう (beu)?}

1. (nautical) anchor

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 海(かい)錨(びょう) (kaibyō)
• 走(そう)錨(びょう) (sōbyō)
• 投(とう)錨(びょう) (tōbyō)
• 抜(ばつ)錨(びょう) (batsubyō)
• 錨(びょう)銲(かん) (byōkan)
• 錨(びょう)鎖(さ) (byōsa)
• 錨(びょう)地(ち) (byōchi)
• 錨(びょう)泊(はく) (byōhaku)

See also

• アンカー (ankā)

Korean

Hanja

錨 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

땅에 닿은 닻 (anchor)

1. (닻): anchor

Synonyms

• 碇 (정, jeong)
• 椗 (정, jeong)

Derived terms

• 묘박(錨泊) (myobak, “anchorage, moorage”)

Okinawan

Alternative forms

• 碇

Kanji

錨

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Kun: いかい (ikai, 錨)、いちゃい (ichai, 錨)

Noun

錨(いかい) or 錨(いちゃい) (ikai or ichai) 

1. anchor

   Synonyms: アンカー (ankā)

Vietnamese

Han character

錨: Hán Nôm readings: miêu

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