杖

杖 (radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木十大 (DJK), four-corner 4590₀, composition ⿰木丈)

• KangXi: page 512, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14469
• Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1159, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6756

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daŋʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 丈 (OC *daŋʔ).

杖

1. walking stick
2. staff; rod; cane; wand
3. (historical) flogging with a stick
4. ^† to flog (a prisoner)
5. ^† to support; to prop
6. ^† to hold; to grasp
7. ^† Alternative form of 仗 (zhàng, “to rely on; to depend on”).
8. (Min Dong) Classifier for segments of sugarcane.

• → Mongolian: зан (zan), ᠵᠠᠩ (ǰang)
• → Manchu: ᠵᠠᠩ (jang)
• → Vietic: *coːŋʔ (“to lean on a stick”)
  • Vietnamese: chống (“to lean on as prop; to prop”), gậy chống (“walking stick”)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kun: つえ (tsue, 杖)^{←つゑ (tuwe, historical)}

⟨tuwe⟩ → /tuwe/ → /t͡suwe/ → /t͡suje/ → /t͡sue/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つ​え [tsúꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝe̞]

• 筇, 丈

杖 (hiragana つえ, rōmaji tsue, historical hiragana つゑ)

1. staff, stick, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand
   • 2000 March 1, “古こ代だい魔ま導どう士し [Ancient Mage]”, in BOOSTER 7, Konami:

     数 (かず)多 (おお)くの杖 (つえ)を持 (も)ち、それぞれを使 (つか)い分 (わ)け多 (た)彩 (さい)な攻 (こう)撃 (げき)をする。

     Kazuōku no tsue o mochi, sorezore o tsukaiwake tasai na kōgeki o suru.

     He wields an array of wands, each of which is used for a distinctive attack.

2. something one leans on, a support
3. a cane used for corporal punishment
4. a particularly shaped stirring stick used to make New Year's porridge

   Synonym: 粥杖 (kayuzue)

5. the stem of a pear
6. (historical) a traditional unit of length
   1. (historical) approximately 3 meters
   2. (historical) seven 尺 (shaku, traditional Japanese foot) and five 寸 (sun, traditional Japanese inch), or approximately 2.3 meters
7. (historical) a traditional unit of area
   1. (historical) one-fifth of a 段 (tan, traditional Japanese paddy size, roughly half of an English acre), or around 237m²

The Japanese term tsue can refer generally to a stick or staff of various lengths, as expressed by the range of English meanings apparent in the senses above.

From Middle Chinese 杖 (MC ɖɨɐŋ^X).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) じょ​ー [jóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ː]

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

1. a jo: a fighting staff, a little over 4 尺 (shaku, “a traditional unit of measure, about 30 cm or a foot”) long, shorter than a 棒 (bō, “quarterstaff”)
2. (historical) under the ancient Ritsuryō system, caning as a form of corporal punishment
3. (historical) a traditional unit of area: one-fifth of a 段 (tan, traditional Japanese paddy size, roughly half of an English acre), or around 237m²

• 錫 (しゃく)杖 (じょう) (shakujō): a khakkhara, a Buddhist monk's "sounding staff"

• 棒 (ぼう) (bō): a bo staff

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

杖 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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杖 (trượng, rường)

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