柔

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 矛 + 木 (“tree”) – wood soft enough that it can easily be cut.

Han character[edit]

柔 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹木 (NHD), four-corner 17904, composition ⿱矛木)

  1. soft
  2. gentle, pliant

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 519, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14622
  • Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1192, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+67D4

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

柔 (Yale yau4)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

柔 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

柔 (hiragana やわら, romaji yawara)

  1. A small handheld metal weapon; like a 'fist-iron'; either one or two small, thick sticks which stick out about an inch from each side of the hand--usually used in pairs to initiate throws, bone breaks, and pressure point strikes; inspired from the vajra/kongō.

See also[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

柔 (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

柔 (pinyin róu (rou2), Wade-Giles jou2)

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

柔 (nhu)

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