象
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
This character represents an elephant (see [1] for images of older versions of this character)
[edit] Han character
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象 (radical 152 豕+5, in Chinese 11 strokes, in Japanese 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓日心人 (NAPO), four-corner 27232)
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 1195, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36372
- Dae Jaweon: page 1658, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3611, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8C61
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
象 (jyutping zoeng6, Yale jeung6)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Noun
[edit] Noun
- elephant
- 931-938: Wamyō Ruijushō (book 7 page 52)
- 象 [...] 岐佐 [...] 獣名、似水牛、大耳、長鼻、眼細、牙長者也
- 970-999: Utsubo Monogatari (Toshikage)
- それより西を行ケば、虎狼ひと山さワぐ所有り。キサ出デてその山をこしつ。
- 931-938: Wamyō Ruijushō (book 7 page 52)
[edit] Kanji
[edit] Readings
[edit] Compounds
[edit] References
- 1959 March 1 [c. 970-999], Kōno, Tama, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-000-60010-9:
- 1968 February 29 [931-938], Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu, Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 4-653-00507-9:
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
象 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Noun
象 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xiàng)
[edit] Synonyms
- (elephant in Chinese Chess): 相
[edit] Etymology 1
From Tai
[edit] Noun
象 (simplified, Pinyin xiàng, traditional 像)
[edit] Etymology 2
The passage from the elephant meaning to the likeness meaning is explained like this in the Han Feizi (around 221 BCE): Men rarely see living elephants. As they come by the skeleton of a dead elephant, they imagine its living form according to its features. Therefore it comes to pass that whatever people use for imagining the real is called 象. [1]
[edit] Compounds
- 象鼻虫
- trad. 象齒焚身, simpl. 象齿焚身
- 象棋
- trad. 象聲詞, simpl. 象声词
- trad. 象戲, simpl. 象戏
- 象限
- 象形
- 象形文字
- 象牙
- trad. 象牙寶塔, simpl. 象牙宝塔
- 象牙之塔
- trad. 象牙質, simpl. 象牙质
- trad. 象眼兒, simpl. 象眼儿
- trad. 象徵, simpl. 象征
- trad. 象徵主義, simpl. 象征主义
- 象箸玉杯
- 大象 elephant
- 非洲象 African elephant
- 印度象 Indian elephant
[edit] References
- Peyraube, Alain. "Ancient Chinese." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Ed. Roger D. Woodard. Cambridge UP, 2004. 1012.
- Notes:
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
象 (tượng)
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- cmn:Elementary Mandarin in simplified script
- cmn:Elephants in simplified script
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- cmn:Elephants in traditional script
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