牆

See also 墙, and 墻

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 爿 (“wood”) + phonetic 嗇

Han character

牆 (radical 90 爿+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女一土人田 (VMGOW), four-corner 2426₁)

1. wall

References

• KangXi: page 692, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1105, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2378, character 22
• Unihan data for U+7246

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Cantonese

Hanzi

牆 (simplified 墙, jyutping coeng4, Yale cheung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

牆

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: かき (kaki)

Compounds

• 垣牆 (えんしょう, enshō)
• 牆壁 (しょうへき, shōheki)

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Korean

Hanja

牆 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

牆 (simplified 墙, pinyin qiáng (qiang2), Wade-Giles ch'iang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牆 (tường)

Readings

• Nôm: tường

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999