窓

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See also: 窗, 窻, and 䆫
窓 U+7A93, 窓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A93
← 窒
[U+7A92] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 窔 →
[U+7A94]

Translingual

Han character

窓 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十金戈心 (JCIP), composition ⿱㝐心 or ⿱宀忩)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25494
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1293, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2730, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7A93

Usage notes

This character is listed in the Kangxi dictionary (廣韻) as an unorthodox form (俗字) of 窻.

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 窓 – see 窗 (“window”).
(This character is a variant form of 窗).

Japanese

Kanji

窓

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 窗)

Readings

  • Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)←そう (sou, historical)
  • Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)←さう (sau, historical)
  • Kun: まど (mado, 窓, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
窓
まど
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
窗 (kyujitai)
牕
牖
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From Old Japanese. Compound of 目 (ma, “eye”, ancient combining form of modern 目 (me)) +‎ 門 (to, “gate, opening”), in reference to an opening for looking through.[1][2][3]

Alternatively, may be a compound of 間 (ma, “gap”) +‎ 門 (to, “gate, opening”).[1][3][4]

First cited in some references to a text from 794,[5] and also found in the Man'yōshū of 759.[6]

The Microsoft Windows sense is a calque of English Windows.

Pronunciation

Noun

窓(まど) • (mado) 

  1. [from 759] window
    Synonym: (rare) 窓牖 (sōyū)
  2. [from 1931] (regional, dialect, Etchū region) a deep gap in a mountain ridge (so called for the way the wind blows through, like a window[1][7])
    Synonym: (Shinshū region) きれっと (kiretto)
  3. [date uncertain] マド: (investing) on a candlestick chart, a gap in day-to-day candlesticking caused by a marked increase or decrease in the price of a security, derivative, currency, or other investment
    Synonym: 空 (sora)

Descendants

  • → Yami: mado

Proper noun

窓(まど) • (Mado) 

  1. (Internet slang, dated) Windows (an operating system)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  2. ^ “窓”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ “窓・窗・牖”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  6. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2679:
    , available online here
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  8. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

窓 (eumhun 창문 창 (changmun chang))

  1. hanja form? of 창 (“window”)

Vietnamese

Han character

窓: Hán Nôm readings: song

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