丈

丈 (radical 1, 一+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十大 (JK), four-corner 5000₀, composition ⿻𠂇乀)

• KangXi: page 76, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11
• Dae Jaweon: page 137, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 9, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4E08

Historical forms of the character 丈
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s01638 Transcribed ancient scripts L35087 L17509
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 十 (“ten”) + 又 (“hand”) – ten chi (尺) is one zhang (丈).

丈

1. A unit of measurement.
   1. The zhang, a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (尺)
   2. The mainland zhang, a unit of length standardized in 1984 as 3 ¹/₃ meters.
   3. The Taiwanese zhang, a unit of length standardized as 3 ¹/₃₃ meters, identical to the Japanese jō.
   4. The Hong Kong jeuhng, standardized as 3.71475 meters.
2. to survey (land); to measure
3. gentleman; man; husband

   丈夫  ―  zhàngfū  ―  husband

• (mainland zhang): 市丈 (shìzhàng)

• 尺 (chǐ), 寸 (cùn), 分 (fēn)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kun: たけ (take, 丈, Jōyō)

From Chinese 丈 (zhang)

丈 (hiragana じょう, rōmaji jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)

1. jō, a traditional Japanese unit of length based on 10 shaku, standardized as equal to 3 ¹/₃₃ meters.

/take2/: [takye] → [take]. Cognate with 高 (taka, “height”), 高い (takai, “high”), and 長ける (takeru, “to be high”).

• 長

丈 (hiragana たけ, rōmaji take)

1. height
   • 970-999, Utsubo Monogatari (Toshikage)

     [...] いひ教ふる事もなくておほしたつるに、年にもあはず、丈たかく心かしこし。

• This term is often spelled in hiragana. The kanji spelling is rarely used.

丈 (hiragana じょう, rōmaji Jō, historical hiragana ぢやう)

1. A male given name

• はちじょう (hachijō)

• Kōno, Tama (c. 970–999) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1959, →ISBN.

丈 • (jang)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 장 (revised: jang, McCune–Reischauer: chang, Yale: cang)
  • Name (hangeul): 어른 (revised: eoleun, McCune–Reischauer: ǒrǔn)

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• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丈

丈 (trượng)

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