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)

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

Alternative forms

• 楯

Etymology

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

Kanji

盾 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅん (jun/shǔn), とん (ton)
• Kun: たて (tate)

Derived terms

• 孤天斬盾 (こてんざんじゅん, koten zanshǔn): lit. "solitary heaven cutting shield"
• 双天帰盾 (そうてんきじゅん, sōten kisshǔn): lit. "twin heavens return shield"
• 三天結盾 (さんてんけっすじゅん, santen kesshǔn): lit. "three heavenly links shield"
• 四天抗盾 (しんてこうじゅん, shiten kōshǔn): lit. "four heavens defiance shield"

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Korean

Hanja

盾 (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)