匠

Translingual

Han character

匠 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹一中 (SHML), four-corner 7171₂, composition ⿷匚斤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2605
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 83, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5320

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匠
alternative forms		匞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匠
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
匚	*paŋ
匠	*sbaŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sbaŋs) : phonetic 匚 (OC *paŋ) + semantic 斤.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàng (jiang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siong
• Northern Min (KCR): tiōng
• Eastern Min (BUC): chióng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiōng / chhiāng / chiōng / chhiūⁿ / chhiōⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciên⁷ / cion⁷ / ziang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàng
    • Wade–Giles: chiang⁴
    • Yale: jyàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jianq
    • Palladius: цзян (czjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoeng⁶
    • Yale: jeuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siong
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiong
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiong⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯oŋ⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tiōng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiɔŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chióng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuɔŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiōng
    • Tâi-lô: tshiōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiong
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiāng
    • Tâi-lô: tshiāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiang
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiaŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiōng
    • Tâi-lô: tsiōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciong
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiūⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshiūnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chviu
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiũ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiũ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiũ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiōⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshiōnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chvioi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɔ̃²²/

Note:

• chhiōng/chhiāng/chiōng - literary;
• chhiūⁿ/chhiōⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ciên⁷ / cion⁷ / ziang⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiēⁿ / tshiōⁿ / tsiăng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰĩẽ¹¹/, /t͡sʰĩõ¹¹/, /t͡siaŋ³⁵/

Note:

• ciên7/cion7 - vernacular (ciên7 - Chaozhou);
• ziang6 - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: dzjangH

Rime
Character	匠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾亮切
Baxter	dzjangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ziɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɨaŋH/
Li Rong	/d͡ziaŋH/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭaŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯aŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoeng6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.baŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sbaŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiàng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjangH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.baŋ-s/
English	craftsman
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匠
Reading #	1/1
No.	6268
Phonetic component	匚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	匠
Old Chinese	/*sbaŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匠

1. craftsman, artisan
2. workman
3. carpenter

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Japanese

Kanji

匠

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: たくみ (takumi, 匠)

Compounds

• 師(し)匠(しょう) (shishō)

Noun

匠(たくみ) • (takumi) 

1. artisan, workman, carpenter

Alternative forms

• しょう (shō)

Proper noun

匠(たくみ) or 匠(proper) • (takumi or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|たくみ]]

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

匠 (eum 장 (jang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

匠: Hán Nôm readings: tượng

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