棒

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 奉 – a wooden club.

Han character

棒 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木手大手 (DQKQ), four-corner 4595₃, composition ⿰木奉)

1. stick, club, truncheon
2. hit
3. smart, handsome, good to look at (of acrobatic skill), excellent

References

• KangXi: page 532, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14929
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1222, character 9
• Unihan data for U+68D2

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		棒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàng, bèi (bang⁴, bei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˋ, ㄅㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paang⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): pāng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banq
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bey
    • IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paang⁵
    • Yale: páahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paang⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑːŋ¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng
    • Tâi-lô: pāng
    • IPA (Taipei): /paŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /paŋ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (棒, reconstructed)
Character (棒), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 江 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 步項切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɣʌŋX/	/bʱɔŋX/	/bɔŋX/	/bɯɔŋX/	/baɨwŋX/	/bɔŋX/	/bɔŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (棒, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
棒					3207					丰					東					0					㭋					/*broːŋʔ/					說文作棓

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Definitions

棒

1. cool

Compounds

• 好棒
• 記憶棒／记忆棒

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Japanese

Kanji

棒

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), ほう (hō)
• Kun: つえ (tsue)

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Korean

Hanja

棒 (bong)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 봉 (revised: bong, McCune-Reischauer: pong, Yale: pong)

• Name (hangeul): 몽둥이()

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Vietnamese

Han character

棒 (bổng, vổng, bọng, bộng, búng)

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