棌

Translingual

Han character

棌 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木月木 (DBD), four-corner 5299₄)

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References

• KangXi: page 532, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14923
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1234, character 9
• Unihan data for U+68CC

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棌 椽不斲 （cǎi chuán bù zhuó）is an old idiom, which means using 棌木-caimu(oak) for making a rafter without carving figure and other decoration. And this idiom is for eulogizing that the great emperors 尧-yao and舜-shun are frugality. Because at the period of Yaoshun, they lived in the house that using undecorated oak wood for rafter.

Japanese

Kanji

棌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: くぬぎ (kunugi), あらき (araki), まるき (maruki)

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Korean

Hanja

棌 (chae) (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune-Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

棌 (Pinyin āo (ao1), cǎi (cai3), gǔn (gun3), hùn (hun4), Wade-Giles ao¹, ts'ai³, kun³, hun⁴)

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