爿

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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Han character

爿 (radical 90 爿+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 女中一 (VLM), four-corner 2220₀)

1. half of tree trunk
2. rad. no. 90

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/爿
• 壯, 狀, 妝, 戕, 𢪇, 斨, 𧢼

References

• KangXi: page 691, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19758
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2374, character 1
• Unihan data for U+723F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爿 (jyutping baan2, baan6, coeng4, Yale baan2, baan6, cheung4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

爿 (POJ tshòng, Guangdong siong², ts'iong², p'an⁵ [Meixian], ts'ong² [Hailu, Siyan, Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim cong2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

爿

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: だい (dai), きぎれ (kigire)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爿 (pinyin qiáng (qiang2), Wade-Giles ch'iang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爿 (tường)