袋

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 代 + semantic 衣 (“clothes”)

Han character

袋 (radical 145 衣+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人心卜竹女 (OPYHV), four-corner 2373₂)

1. pocket, bag, sack, pouch

References

• KangXi: page 1113, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34171
• Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3080, character 9
• Unihan data for U+888B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

袋 (Yale doi6)

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Japanese

Kanji

袋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たい (tai)
• Kun: ふくろ (fukuro)

Compounds

• 足袋 (たび, tabi, “tabi”)

Noun

袋 (hiragana ふくろ, romaji fukuro)

1. a bag; A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.; a sack; a pouch
2. a segment in a fruit such as a orange
3. an organ of which form is like a bag
4. (お袋(おふくろ, ofukuro)) a mother
5. (袋小路(ふくろこうじ, fukurokōji)) a dead end

References

• The American Heritage's Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Korean

Hanja

袋 (hangeul 대, revised dae, McCune-Reischauer tae, Yale tay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

袋 (pinyin dài (dai4), Wade-Giles tai⁴)

Compounds

• 袋鼠
• 小袋鼠
• 胶袋 (plastic bag)

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Vietnamese

Han character

袋 (đại, đãy)