擋

See also: 挡

擋 U+64CB, 擋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64CB ← 擊 [U+64CA] CJK Unified Ideographs 擌 → [U+64CC]

Translingual

Han character

擋 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手火月田 (QFBW), four-corner 5906₆, composition ⿰扌當)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12802
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1968, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64CB

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Chinese

trad.		擋
simp.		挡
alternative forms		攩／挡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
當	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠	*taːŋ
鐺	*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹	*taːŋ
璫	*taːŋ
檔	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷	*taːŋ
擋	*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨	*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜	*taːŋʔ
欓	*taːŋʔ
譡	*taːŋs
闣	*taːŋs
瓽	*taːŋs
鏜	*tʰaːŋ
闛	*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞	*tʰaːŋ
曭	*tʰaːŋʔ
儻	*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃	*tʰaːŋʔ
矘	*tʰaːŋʔ
爣	*tʰaːŋʔ
攩	*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌	*tʰaːŋʔ
倘	*tʰaːŋʔ
躺	*tʰaːŋʔ
趟	*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂	*daːŋ
坣	*daːŋ
棠	*daːŋ
糛	*daːŋ
螳	*daːŋ
隚	*daːŋ
橖	*daːŋ
掌	*tjaŋʔ
廠	*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞	*tʰjaŋʔ
僘	*tʰjaŋʔ
氅	*tʰjaŋʔ
常	*djaŋ
嘗	*djaŋ
裳	*djaŋ
徜	*djaŋ
尚	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞	*djaŋ
鋿	*djaŋ
嫦	*djaŋ
償	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞	*hjaŋʔ
瞠	*rtʰaːŋ
撐	*rtʰaːŋ
樘	*rtʰaːŋ
橕	*rtʰaːŋ
牚	*rtʰaːŋs
埫	*tʰoŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taːŋʔ, *taːŋs) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 當 (OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs).

Etymology

From 當 (OC *taːŋ, “to have the value of; to be equal of; to face; vis-à-vis; to match”) and originally written as 當 (Wang, 1982).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 擋

1. to ward off; to block

   擋住去路／挡住去路  ―  dǎng zhù qùlù  ―  to block the way

   搵嘢擋住啲雨 [Cantonese, trad.]
   揾嘢挡住啲雨 [Cantonese, simp.]

   wan² je⁵ dong² zyu⁶ di¹ jyu⁵ [Jyutping]

   find something to protect oneself from (lit. block off) the rain

   • 玄德苦擋，雲長不依，只領五百校刀手而去。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     玄德苦挡，云长不依，只领五百校刀手而去。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14^th century CE

     Xuándé kǔ dǎng, Yúncháng bù yī, zhǐ lǐng wǔbǎi jiàodāoshǒu ér qù. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (automotive) gear

   二擋／二挡  ―  èrdǎng  ―  second gear

   手動擋／手动挡  ―  shǒudòngdǎng  ―  manual transmission

   跳擋／跳挡  ―  tiàodǎng  ―  to pop out of gear; to skip a gear when shifting

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

擋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: さける (sakeru, 擋ける)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擋: Hán Nôm readings: đương, đáng

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