笴

笴 U+7B34, 笴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B34 ← 笳 [U+7B33] CJK Unified Ideographs 笵 → [U+7B35]

Translingual

Han character

笴 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹一弓口 (HMNR), four-corner 8862₁, composition ⿱𥫗可)

Derived characters

• 𣘠

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 881, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25951
• Dae Jaweon: page 1310, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2953, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7B34

Chinese

trad.		笴
simp. #		笴
alternative forms		𣘠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	*kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	*kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻	*kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	*kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵	*kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵	*qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	*qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	*ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴	*qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Etymology

Variant of 竿 (OC *kaːn, “pole”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎn, gě

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˇ, ㄍㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon² / go² / gou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǎn
    • Wade–Giles: kan³
    • Yale: gǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
    • Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gě
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gě
    • Wade–Giles: ko³
    • Yale: gě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gee
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gon² / go² / gou²
    • Yale: gón / gó / góu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon² / go² / gou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon² / go² / gou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn³⁵/, /kɔː³⁵/, /kou̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kanX, kaX

Rime
Character	笴	笴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古旱切	古我切
Baxter	kanX	kaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kanX/	/kaX/
Li Rong	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Wang Li	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑnX/	/kɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǎn	gě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gon2	go2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤarʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːlʔ/, /*kaːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	笴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ kanX ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁarʔ/
English	shaft of an arrow
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	笴	笴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7443	7479
Phonetic component	可	可
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	哿	笴
Old Chinese	/*kaːlʔ/	/*kaːnʔ/

Definitions

笴

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) arrow shaft

   • 朱笴，出麗水，裝以金穹鐵簜，所指無不洞也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     朱笴，出丽水，装以金穹铁𰩹，所指无不洞也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 21

     Zhūgǎn, chū Líshuǐ, zhuāng yǐ jīn qióng tiě dàng, suǒ zhǐ wú bù dòng yě. [Pinyin]

     The red arrow shaft is a product of Li​shui​, and is decorated with a golden fuller and an iron guard, and they are always hollow.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) arrow

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03177
• “笴”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

笴

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)、こう (kō)、かん (kan)
• Kun: やがら (yagara)