橋

See also: 桥

Translingual

Han character

橋 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木竹大月 (DHKB), four-corner 4292₇, composition ⿰木喬)

Derived characters

• 𡳯, 𧂼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 553, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15526
• Dae Jaweon: page 941, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1292, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6A4B

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Chinese

trad.		橋
simp.		桥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 橋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
驕	*krew
嬌	*krew, *krewʔ, *ɡrew
憍	*krew, *kʰrew
穚	*krew
鷮	*krew, *ɡrew
蕎	*krew, *ɡrew
喬	*krew, *ɡrew
簥	*krew
撟	*krew, *krewʔ
矯	*krewʔ
鱎	*krewʔ
敽	*krewʔ
蟜	*krewʔ, *ɡrew
譑	*krewʔ, *kʰews
蹻	*krewʔ, *kʰew, *ɡrew, *kewɢ, *ɡewɢ
繑	*kʰew
鞽	*kʰrew
趫	*kʰrew, *ɡrew
嘺	*ɡew
橋	*ɡrew
僑	*ɡrew
鐈	*ɡrew
毊	*ɡrew, *qʰrew
轎	*ɡrew, *ɡrews
嶠	*ɡrews
獢	*qʰrew
屩	*kewɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrew) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 喬 (OC *krew, *ɡrew).

Definitions

橋

(deprecated template usage) 橋

1. bridge (over a river) (Classifier: 座 m; 條／条 c)

   橋樑／桥梁  ―  qiáoliáng  ―  bridge

2. bridge-like object: footbridge; beam; crosspiece
3. (Cantonese) idea; plan (Classifier: 條／条 c)
4. (Cantonese) plot; storyline (Classifier: 條／条 c)
5. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

橋

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kun: はし (hashi, 橋, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ばせ (base)

Compounds

Compounds

• 鉄橋(てっきょう) (tekkyō)
• 高橋(たかはし) (takahashi)

Alternative forms

• (variant) 𣘺 [U+2363a]
• (variant) 槗 [U+69d7]
• (variant) 𫞎 [U+2B78E]

Etymology

Kanji in this term
橋
はし Grade: 3
kun'yomi

/pasi/ → /ɸasi/ → /hasi/

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese, originally indicating either the area between two things, or a connection between two things.

Cognate with 階 (hashi, “stairs from a garden up to the house”), both cognate with root hasa indicating the narrow area between two things, as in 狭間 (“narrow gap between two things”, classical hasama, modern hazama) or 挟む (hasamu, “to put between two things that are close together, to squeeze between two things”). Cognate also with root hoso indicating the narrowness of a thing itself, as in 細い (hosoi, “narrow, slender”), 細める (hosomeru, “to narrow something, to make something narrow”).

Noun

橋(はし) • (hashi) 

1. that which is constructed to connect two points for the purpose of transportation: a bridge
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 16:
     :

     旋澓 [...] 梁力將反橋也二字波之

   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 43:
     :

     橋梁 上波之下宇都波利

2. a bridge-like walkway or corridor between two buildings in a manor, palace, castle, or similar structure
3. a person who acts as a bridge between different people: a mediator, a go-between

Synonyms

• (bridge for traffic): 橋梁(きょうりょう) (kyōryō)
• (corridor): 渡(わた)り廊下(ろうか) (watarirōka), 渡殿(わたどの) (watadono), 長橋(ながはし) (nagahashi)
• (mediator): 仲(なか)立(だ)ち (nakadachi), 仲介(ちゅうかい) (chūkai)

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Korean

Hanja

橋 • (gyo) (hangeul 교)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 橋 (kiều, cầu, kéo, kèo)

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