鋏

See also: 铗

Translingual

Han character

鋏 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金大人人 (CKOO), four-corner 8413₈, composition ⿰釒夾)

1. tongs, pincers
2. dagger
3. sword

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1307, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40450
• Dae Jaweon: page 1809, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4205, character 7
• Unihan data for U+92CF

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Chinese

trad.		鋏
simp.		铗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瘞	*qrebs
瘱	*qeːbs
脥	*kʰemʔ
浹	*skaːb, *skeːb
挾	*skaːb, *ɡeːb
夾	*kreːb
郟	*kreːb
筴	*sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
裌	*kreːb
鵊	*kreːb
狹	*ɡreːb
峽	*ɡreːb
硤	*ɡreːb
陜	*ɡreːb
陿	*ɡreːb
翜	*sraːb, *srɯːb
梜	*kraːb, *keːb
頰	*keːb
莢	*keːb
鋏	*keːb
蛺	*keːb
唊	*keːb
悏	*kʰeːb
匧	*kʰeːb
愜	*kʰeːb
篋	*kʰeːb
俠	*ɡeːb
綊	*ɡeːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiá (jia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiá
    • Wade–Giles: chia²
    • Yale: jyá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jya
    • Palladius: цзя (czja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaap³
    • Yale: gaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kep

Rime
Character	鋏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	怗 (158)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古協切
Baxter	kep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kep̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kep̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛp̚/
Li Rong	/kep̚/
Wang Li	/kiep̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gip3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鋏
Reading #	1/1
No.	5906
Phonetic component	夾
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	頰
Old Chinese	/*keːb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鋏

1. (of swords) the hilt

   長鋏歸來乎！食無魚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   长铗归来乎！食无鱼。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

   Chángjiá guīlái hū! Shí wú yú. [Pinyin]

   Long hilt sword, come on home [with me]! There's no fish in the food [here]!

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Japanese

Kanji

鋏

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kun: はさみ (hasami, 鋏)、はさむ (hasamu, 鋏む)、やとこ (yatoko, 鋏)、やっとこ (yattoko, 鋏)

Etymology 1

鋏 (hasami): a pair of traditional Japanese shears or scissors.

鋏 (hasami): a pair of western-style scissors.

Kanji in this term
鋏
はさみ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
剪刀 螯 鉗

Originally the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 鋏む (hasamu, “to be tightly between two things, to be inserted in between””), itself apparently deriving from hasa (“narrowness between other things”, likely cognate with 細 hoso, “skinny, narrowness within the thing itself”) + auxiliary suffix む (mu, “to be or become like something”).

Cognate and homophonic with 挟, 挿 (​hasami): “being stuck in between other things”.

Noun

鋏(はさみ) • (hasami) 

1. a (pair of) scissors
2. pincers or claws as found on a crab, lobster, or other arthropod
3. a punch as used to make a hole in a piece of paper

Usage notes

The scissors and punch senses are also found spelled 剪刀.

The arthropod pincers sense is also found spelled 螯 and 鉗.

Idioms

• 鋏(はさみ)を入(い)れる (hasami o ireru, “to put the scissors in → to cut with scissors; to punch a ticket; to trim vegetation or hair”)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 鋏状(はさみじょう)価格差(かかくさ) (hasami-jō kakakusa, “price scissors”)
• 鋏(はさみ)虫(むし) (hasamimushi, “earwig”)
• 鋏(はさみ)盤(ばん) (hasamiban, “mechanical shear for cutting metal”)
• 金(かな)鋏(ばさみ) (kanabasami, “blacksmith's grippers”)
• 紙(かみ)鋏(ばさみ) (kamibasami, “paper scissors”)
• 空(から)鋏(ばさみ) (karabasami, “working a pair of scissors to make the sound of cutting, without actually cutting anything”)
• 木(き)鋏(ばさみ) (kibasami, “long shears for pruning, such as for a hedge”)
• 銀葉(ぎんよう)鋏(ばさみ) (gin'yō-basami, “tweezers for holding silver leaf in traditional Japanese incense”)
• 西洋(せいよう)鋏(ばさみ) (seiyō-basami, “western-style scissors”)
• 裁(た)ち鋏(ばさみ) (tachibasami, “scissors for cutting cloth”)
• 爪切(つめき)り鋏(ばさみ) (tsumekiri-basami, “nail clippers”)
• 唐(とう)鋏(ばさみ) (tōbasami, “western-style scissors, with a pivot in the center and forming an X shape”)
• 握(にぎ)り鋏(ばさみ) (nigiribasami, “traditional Japanese shears, with a join at the back end and forming a U shape”)
• 花(はな)鋏(ばさみ) (hanabasami, “flower shears, florist's scissors”)
• ピンキング鋏(ばさみ) (pinkingu-basami, “pinking shears”)
• 矢床鋏(やっとこばさみ) (yattokobasami, “blacksmith's grippers”)
• 洋(よう)鋏(ばさみ) (yōbasami, “western-style scissors”)
• 和(わ)鋏(ばさみ) (wabasami, “traditional Japanese shears, with a join at the back end and forming a U shape”)

Etymology 2

鋏 (yattoko): a pair of blacksmith's pincers

Kanji in this term
鋏
やっとこ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
矢床

Probably originally an abbreviation of synonym yattokobasami, with the yattoko portion possibly an alteration of 焼き床 (yakidoko, “the cooking bed of an oven, or the firing bed of a kiln”, possibly formerly read as yakitoko, literally “burning or cooking bed”), perhaps used as a dialect word referring to the forge; compare 火床 (hidoko, “hearth; a firepit, such as beneath a boiler”, literally “fire bed”).

Noun

鋏(やっとこ) • (yattoko) 

1. pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

Synonyms

• 矢床鋏(やっとこばさみ) (yattokobasami)

Derived terms

• 矢床(やっとこ)鋏(ばさみ) (yattokobasami, “blacksmith's grippers”)
• 鋏(やっとこ)箸(ばし) (yattokobashi, “blacksmith's tongs”)

Further reading

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130609060114/http://tool.kigasuki.com/tukamu.html -- in Japanese.

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
鋏
やとこ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Probable variation from yattoko. Rare.

Noun

鋏(やとこ) • (yatoko) 

1. (rare) pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, more specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
鋏
きょう Hyōgai
on'yomi

/kepu/ → /keɸu/ → /keu/ → /kjoː/

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 鋏／铗 (kiɛp, “tongs, pincers”). Compare modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Cantonese reading gaap³.

Affix

鋏(きょう) • (kyō) ^{←けふ (kefu)?}

1. pincers, scissors, tongs

Usage notes

Only found in compounds.

Derived terms

• 鋏角(きょうかく) (kyōkaku, “chelicera, the mouthparts of certain arthropods such as spiders”)

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Korean

Hanja

鋏 • (hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune–Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

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