箱

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 相 – a bamboo box.

Han character

箱 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月山 (HDBU), four-corner 8896₃)

1. case, box, chest, trunk

References

• KangXi: page 890, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26209
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2989, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7BB1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

箱 (jyutping soeng1, Yale seung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

箱 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō), そう (sō)
• Kun: はこ (hako)

Noun

箱 (hiragana はこ, romaji hako)

1. box

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Korean

Hanja

箱 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

箱 (pinyin xiāng (xiang1), Wade-Giles hsiang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

箱 (tương, rương, sương)