棡

Translingual

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 岡 (OC *klaːŋ).

Han character

棡 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木月廿山 (DBTU), four-corner 4792₀, composition ⿰木岡)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 533, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14955
• Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1232, character 10
• Unihan data for U+68E1

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Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		棡
simp.		㭎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāng (gang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ / gong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gang
    • Wade–Giles: kang¹
    • Yale: gāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gang
    • Palladius: ган (gan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gong¹ / gong³
    • Yale: gōng / gong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ / gong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ / gong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵/, /kɔːŋ³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 棡

1. tall tree
2. large tree
3. oak
4. Used in place names.

   青棡坡／青㭎坡  ―  Qīnggāngpō  ―  the name of a place in Guizhou

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 棡 – see 扛 (“to lift using both hands; to lift by at least two people; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 扛).

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Japanese

Kanji

棡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)