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鉞

鉞

See also: 钺

Translingual

Han character

鉞 (radical 167 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金戈女 (CIV), four-corner 83150)

  1. broad-axe, a battle axe, halberd

References

  • KangXi: page 1302, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40313
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1803, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4184, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+925E

Chinese

trad. 鉞
simp. 钺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
泧 *qʰʷaːd, *kʰʷad, *ɢʷad
眓 *qʰʷaːd
越 *ɢʷaːd, *ɢʷad
狘 *kʰʷad
戉 *ɢʷad
鉞 *ɢʷad
樾 *ɢʷad
怴 *qʰʷrɯd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鉞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 月 (68)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王伐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鉞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwot ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷat/
English a kind of axe

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 鉞
Reading # 1/1
No. 16335
Phonetic
component		 戉
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 越
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷad/
Notes 同戉

Definitions

鉞

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Japanese

Etymology

The final -kari may be the nominalized form of 刈る ‎(karu, “cut”).

Noun

鉞 ‎(hiragana まさかり, romaji masakari)

  1. a large axe

See also

Kanji

鉞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

鉞 • ‎(wol) (hangeul 월, revised wol, McCune-Reischauer wŏl, Yale wel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鉞 (việt)

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