盾

Translingual

Han character

盾 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十月山 (HJBU), four-corner 7226₄, composition ⿸𠂆𥃭 or ⿸𣂑目)

Derived characters

• 循 楯

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 801, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23171
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2475, character 5
• Unihan data for U+76FE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		盾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
盾	*l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ
遁	*l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns
循	*ljun
揗	*ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns
楯	*ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ
輴	*l̥ʰun
腯	*l'uːd
鍎	*l'uːd

Pictogram (象形) — a shield (in the oracle bone script).

Etymology

“shield”

Compare Burmese လွှား (hlwa:, “oblong shield”) (Starostin). It is unclear whether Chepang [script needed] (dhəl) is related (Schuessler, 2007). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

“dong”

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Chinese 銅 (MC duwng, “copper”).

1849 “godless florin”

“guilder; gulden; rupiah”

Probably first referred to the two shilling coin, also known as the florin, which had four crowned cruciform shields with a rose in the centre. It was later used for the Dutch guilder, which replaced an older currency known as the florin. Since the guilder was used in Indonesia, when the rupiah replaced it, the Chinese name for the guilder continued to be used for the rupiah.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 盾

1. (military) shield
2. shield-shaped object
3. (figurative) support; aid; assistance
4. dong (Vietnamese currency)
5. guilder; gulden (several currencies)
6. rupiah (Indonesian currency)

References

• “盾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

盾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. shield, escutcheon

Readings

• Go-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō); どん (don)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun); とん (ton)
• Kun: たて (tate, 盾, Jōyō)

Alternative forms

• 楯

Etymology

Kanji in this term
盾
たて Grade: S
kun’yomi

The nominalized form of the verb 立てる (tateru, “stand”).

Noun

盾(たて) • (tate) 

1. a weapon stood up or erected before one's body to block and protect from attacks; a shield

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Korean

Hanja

盾 • (sun, don) (hangeul 순, 돈, McCune–Reischauer sun, ton, Yale swun, ton)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盾: Hán Nôm readings: thuẫn

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