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笴

笴

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. (military, archaic) (conjecture) gě — an Nanzhao era southwest Chinese polearm, potentially phonosemantically derived from 戈 (an ancient term for a halberd)
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，装以金穹铁簜，所指无不洞也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 21
Zhū笴, chū lìshuǐ, zhuāng yǐ jīn qióng tiě dàng, suǒ zhǐ wú bù dòng yě. [Pinyin]
The 'pearl polearm' is a product of Lí​shuǐ​, and is decorated with a golden fuller and an iron guard, and they are always hollow.

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 笴

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

Pronunciation

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
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/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑnX/ /kɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gǎn gě
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 笴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kanX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤarʔ/
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. †arrow shaft
  2. †arrow

References

Japanese

Kanji

笴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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