盾

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – an eye 目 peering 十 through a shield 厂.

Han character

盾 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十月山 (HJBU), four-corner 7226₄, composition ⿸𠂆⿱十目)

1. shield
2. Dutch guilder
3. Indonesia

Derived characters

• 循 楯

References

• KangXi: page 801, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23171
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2475, character 5
• Unihan data for U+76FE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

盾 (Yale teun5)

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Japanese

Kanji

盾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. shield, escutcheon

Readings

• Goon: じゅん (jun), どん (don)
• Kan’on: しゅん (shun), とん (ton)
• Kun: たて (tate)

Alternative forms

• 楯

Etymology

Kanji in this term

盾

たて Grade: S

kun'yomi

The nominalized form of the verb 立てる (tateru, “stand”).

Noun

盾 (hiragana たて, romaji tate)

1. a weapon stood up or erected before one's body to block and protect from attacks; a shield

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Korean

Hanja

盾 (sun, don) (hangeul 순, 돈, revised sun, don, McCune-Reischauer sun, ton, Yale swun, ton)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

盾 (Pinyin dùn (dun4), Wade-Giles tun⁴)

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