橋

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See also: 桥

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

木 + 喬.

Han character[edit]

橋 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木竹大月 (DHKB), four-corner 42927, composition ⿰木喬)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 553, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15526
  • Dae Jaweon: page 941, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1292, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6A4B

Chinese[edit]

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trad. 橋
simp. 桥

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (橋, reconstructed)
Character (橋), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 群 (30)
Final: 宵
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 巨嬌切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiᴇu/ /gi̯ɛu/ /ɡiɛu/ /ɡiɛu/ /giaw/ /ɡĭɛu/ /ɡjæu/
Old Chinese pronunciation (橋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
橋 qiáo ‹ gjew › /*[ɡ](r)aw/ bridge

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
橋 10351 喬 宵 2 喬 /*ɡrew/

Noun[edit]

橋

  1. a footbridge, a (small) bridge
    橋樑 / 桥梁  ―  qiáoliáng  ―  bridge
  2. beam, crosspiece

Usage notes[edit]

Most of the things English terms bridges—as over rivers—are described in modern Chinese as 橋樑／桥梁, whereas 橋／桥 is used for small, level crossings, as over canals or small ditches.

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
橋

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
橋
はし
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

/pasi/ → /ɸasi/ → /hasi/

From Old Japanese, originally indicating either the area between two things, or a connection between two things.[1]

Cognate with 階 (hashi, “stairs from a garden up to the house”), both cognate with root hasa indicating the narrow area between two things, as in 狭間 (“narrow gap between two things”, classical hasama, modern hazama) or 挟む (hasamu, “to put between two things that are close together, to squeeze between two things”).[1] Cognate also with root hoso indicating the narrowness of a thing itself, as in 細い (hosoi, “narrow, slender”), 細める (hosomeru, “to narrow something, to make something narrow”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

橋 (hiragana はし, romaji hashi)

  1. that which is constructed to connect two points for the purpose of transportation: a bridge
  2. a bridge-like walkway or corridor between two buildings in a manor, palace, castle, or similar structure
  3. a person who acts as a bridge between different people: a mediator, a go-between

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

橋 (gyo) (hangeul 교, McCune-Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

橋 (kiều, cầu, kéo, kèo)

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