杖

Translingual

Han character

杖 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木十大 (DJK), four-corner 4590₀, composition ⿰木丈)

1. a cane, walking stick
2. a stick, staff, stave/strove, rod or wand

References

• KangXi: page 512, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14469
• Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1159, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6756

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Cantonese

Hanzi

杖 (Jyutping zoeng6, Yale jeung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

杖

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: じょう (jō)
• Kun: つえ (tsue)

Noun

杖 (hiragana つえ, romaji tsue)

1. staff, stick, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand

Noun

杖 (hiragana じょう, romaji jō)

1. jo, a fighting staff, a little over 4 尺 (しゃく, shaku, “shaku, about 30 cm or a foot”) long, shorter than a bo (quarterstaff).

Compounds

• 錫杖 (しゃくじょう, shakujō): A khakkhara; Buddhist monk's "sounding staff".

Synonyms

• 棒 (ぼう, bō, “bo”)

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Korean

Hanja

杖 (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

杖 (Pinyin chī (chi1), zhàng (zhang4), Wade-Giles ch'ih¹, chang⁴)

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Compounds

• 拐杖 (guǎizhàng)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

杖 (*dhjiɑ̌ng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

杖 (trượng, rường)

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