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掌

掌

Translingual

Han character

掌 (radical 64 手+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月口手 (FBRQ), four-corner 90502, composition ⿱⿱龸口手)

References

  • KangXi: page 437, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12248
  • Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1889, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+638C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 掌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 掌
Large seal script Small seal script
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjaŋʔ) : phonetic 尚 ‎(OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 手.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 掌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cɨaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 掌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k.t]aŋʔ/
English palm of the hand

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 掌
Reading # 1/1
No. 11146
Phonetic
component		 尚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 掌
Old
Chinese		 /*tjaŋʔ/

Definitions

掌

  1. palm of hand
  2. sole of foot
  3. shoe sole or heel
  4. horseshoe
  5. to slap
  6. to hold
  7. to control
  8. (dialectal Mandarin) to put (seasoning)

Compounds

  • 主掌
  • 仙人掌 (xiānrénzhǎng)
  • 執掌／执掌 (zhízhǎng)
  • 巴掌 (bāzhǎng)
  • 手掌 (shǒuzhǎng)
  • 掌上壓／掌上压
  • 掌上明珠
  • 掌上電腦／掌上电脑
  • 掌中戲／掌中戏
  • 掌事
  • 掌勺
  • 掌勺儿
  • 掌印
  • 掌嘴
  • 掌子
  • 掌子面
  • 掌廚／掌厨
  • 掌心 (zhǎngxīn)
  • 掌控
  • 掌握 (zhǎngwò)
  • 掌握電腦／掌握电脑
  • 掌摑
  • 掌擊／掌击
  • 掌故 (zhǎnggù)
  • 掌案兒的／掌案儿的
  • 掌櫃／掌柜 (zhǎngguì)
  • 掌櫃的／掌柜的
  • 掌權／掌权
  • 掌灶
  • 掌燈／掌灯
  • 掌班
  • 掌璽大臣／掌玺大臣
  • 掌璽官／掌玺官
  • 掌相
  • 掌秤
  • 掌管 (zhǎngguǎn)
  • 掌紋／掌纹
  • 掌聲／掌声 (zhǎngshēng)
  • 掌聲雷動／掌声雷动
  • 掌舵 (zhǎngduò)
  • 掌鍋／掌锅
  • 掌門／掌门
  • 掌門人／掌门人 (zhǎngménrén)
  • 掌鞭
  • 掌鞭的
  • 掌骨 (zhǎnggǔ)
  • 接掌
  • 熊掌
  • 鼓掌 (gǔzhǎng)

Descendants

Japanese

Noun

掌 ‎(hiragana てのひら, romaji tenohira)

  1. the palm (flat of the hand)

Kanji

掌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

掌 • ‎(jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

掌 (chưởng)

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