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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Cantonese

Hanzi

棒 (jyutping paang5, Yale paang5)

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Japanese

Kanji

棒 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

棒
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 몽둥이()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

棒 (pinyin bàng (bang4), bèi (bei4), Wade-Giles pang⁴, pei⁴)

Compounds

• 好棒

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Vietnamese

Han character

棒 (bổng, vổng, bọng, bộng, búng)