將

See also 将

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 爿 + ⺼ (“meat”) + 寸 (“hand”); semantic is itself Ideogrammic compound (會意): ⺼ (“meat”) + 寸 (“hand”) – meat ⺼ in the hand 寸 (nourishment). The ⺼ component is on its side, hence resembles 夕 with an added dot; compare 祭, 然.

Han character

將 (radical 41 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女一月木戈 (VMBDI), four-corner 2724₂)

1. will, going to, future
2. general

Descendants

• 将

References

• KangXi: page 294, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7438
• Dae Jaweon: page 583, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2375, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5C07

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Cantonese

Hanzi

將 (jyutping zoeng1, zoeng3, Yale jeung1, jeung3)

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Japanese

Kanji

將

Readings

• On: しょう (shō), そう (sō)
• Kun: ひきいる (hikiiru), もって (motte), はた (hata)

Proper noun

將 (hiragana まさる, romaji Masaru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

將 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang) 장수 장

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Mandarin

Verb

將 (traditional, Pinyin jiāng, simplified 将)

1. [archaic] a particle word, usually placed after the verb and before a resultative phrase (進來, 起來, 進去 etc)
   • c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 1 (三國演義/第001回)

     方陞座，殿角狂風驟起，只見一條大青蛇，從梁上飛將下來，蟠於椅上。

     He was just climbing onto his thrown when a gust of wind suddenly arose out of the corner of the hall, and they spotted a big green snake fly down from the rafters, and coil up on the seat.

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Vietnamese

Han character

將 (tướng, tương)