鍬

See also 锹

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 秋 – a metal shovel.

Han character

鍬 (radical 167 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹木火 (CHDF), four-corner 8918₀)

1. shovel

References

• KangXi: page 1315, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40643
• Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4231, character 16
• Unihan data for U+936C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鍬 (simplified 锹, Yale chiu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鍬

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū), しょう (shō)
• Kun: すき (suki), くわ (kuwa)

Noun

鍬 (hiragana くわ, romaji kuwa)

1. hoe

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Korean

鍬

Hanja

鍬 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

1. (가래 초): a spade, shovel, ploughshare

Synonyms

• (spade, shovel, ploughshare): 鍤 (가래 삽), 鍬 (가래 초), 鏵 (가래 화), 鋘 (가래 화)

See also

• (spade, shovel, ploughshare): 鋤 (호미 서), 鉏 (호미 서), 錤 (호미 기), 鎡 (호미 자), 鎒 (호미 호), 钁 (괭이 곽), 钃 (괭이/호미 촉)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鍬 (simplified 锹, pinyin qiāo (qiao1), Wade-Giles ch'iao¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍬 (thâu)