磚

See also 砖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 石 (“rock”) + phonetic 專

Han character

磚 (radical 112 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一口十戈戈 (MRJII), four-corner 1564₃)

1. tile, brick

References

• KangXi: page 835, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24418
• Dae Jaweon: page 1252, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2452, character 7
• Unihan data for U+78DA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

磚 (simplified 砖, Yale jyun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

磚

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: かわら (kawara)

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Korean

Hanja

磚 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

磚 (simplified 砖, pinyin zhuān (zhuan1), Wade-Giles chuan¹)

1. brick

Compounds

• 拋磚引玉, 抛砖引玉