狀

See also: 状

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 爿 + semantic 犬

Han character

狀 (radical 94 犬+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女一戈大 (VMIK), four-corner 3313₄, composition ⿰爿犬)

1. form
2. appearance
3. shape
4. official

References

• KangXi: page 707, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20280
• Dae Jaweon: page 1119, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1334, character 3
• Unihan data for U+72C0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

狀 (simplified 状, Yale jong6)

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Japanese

Kanji

狀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: じょう (jō)

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Korean

Hanja

狀 (hangeul 상, 장 (sang, jang), revised sang, jang, McCune-Reischauer sang, chang, Yale sang, cang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

狀 (simplified 状, Pinyin jué (jue2), zhuàng (zhuang4), Wade-Giles chüeh², chuang⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

狀 (jrhiɑ̀ng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

狀 (trạng)