劔

See also: 劒

劔 U+5294, 劔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5294 ← 劓 [U+5293] CJK Unified Ideographs 劕 → [U+5295]

Translingual

Han character

劔 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人人尸大 (OOSK), composition ⿰僉刄)

Derived characters

• 𭌝, 𭳤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 145, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2245
• Dae Jaweon: page 327, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 360, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5294

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 僉 (OC *skʰlam) + semantic 刄.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 劔 – see 劍 (“sword; sabre; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 劍).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00377-004

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	剱
Kyūjitai	劔

Kanji

劔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 剱)

1. Alternative form of 剣

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)^{←こん (kon, historical)←こむ (komu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←けむ (kemu, ancient)}
• Kun: つるぎ (tsurugi, 劔)^{←つるぎ (turugi, 劔, historical)←つるき (turuki, 劔, ancient)}

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 026130

Korean

Hanja

劔 • (geom) (hangeul 검, revised geom, McCune–Reischauer kŏm)

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