箸

箸 (radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹十大日 (HJKA), four-corner 8860₄, composition ⿱⺮者)

• 𢷷, 櫡, 𥗁, 𦇃, 𨮿, 𣃑

• KangXi: page 891, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2979, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7BB8

Historical forms of the character 箸
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tas, *das) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

The Classical Chinese word for "chopsticks". It has been replaced by 筷子 (kuàizi) in many dialects for taboo reasons, avoiding homophony with 住 (zhù, “stopping”) in boatmen's language. Still used in almost all Min dialects and in sporadically in other topolects, especially in dialects that have some contact with Min.

箸

1. (literary or regional) chopsticks (Classifier: 雙／双; 奇 md mn)

   • 紂王有一日得著一雙象牙ê箸，伊ê人臣箕子看了不止憂悶驚惶。 [Min Nan, trad.]
     纣王有一日得着一双象牙ê箸，伊ê人臣箕子看了不止忧闷惊惶。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     From: 1916, anon., Tùi小可會知大項

     Tiū-ông ū chi̍t ji̍t tit-tio̍h chi̍t siang chhiūⁿ-gê ê tī, i ê jîn-sîn Kî Chú khòaⁿ-liáu put-chí iu-būn kiaⁿ-hiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     One day, King Zhou got a pair of ivory chopsticks. His official Jizi saw that and became incessantly worried and frightened.

   • 妳甘知咱的愛情親像一双筷　挾著酸甘苦淡的滋味 [Taiwanese, trad.]
     你甘知咱的爱情亲像一双筷　挟著酸甘苦淡的滋味 [Taiwanese, simp.]

     From: 2018, 陳淑萍 and 吳俊宏, 《一双筷》

     Lí kám chai lán ê ài-chêng chhin-chhiūⁿ chi̍t siang tī; nge̍h-tio̍h sng kam khó͘ chiáⁿ ê chu-bī [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Do you know our love is like a pair of chopsticks, picking up sourness, sweetness, bitterness and insipidity.

2. (Min) chopstick-shaped object

   冰箸 [Min Dong]  ―  bĭng-*dê̤ṳ / [piŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ tøy²⁴²] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  ice lolly

3. (literary or Southwestern Mandarin, Cantonese) Classifier for an amount of food held with a pair of chopsticks: chopstickful

   我夾箸麵畀你試下吖。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我夹箸面畀你试下吖。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Ngo⁵ gaap³ zyu⁶ min⁶ bei² nei⁵ si³ haa⁵ aa¹. [Jyutping]

   I'll get a chopstickful of noodles for you to try.

   • 一箸青絲菜，三杯白玉醅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一箸青丝菜，三杯白玉醅。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Song dynasty, 王炎, 壬戌立春日

     Yī zhù qīngsī cài, sān bēi bái yùpēi. [Pinyin]

     A chopstickful of chive sprouts, three cups of beautiful white rice wine.

• → Bouyei: deh (“chopsticks”)
• → Burmese: တူ (tu, “chopsticks”) (via Min Nan)
• → Korean: 저 (箸, jeo) > 젓가락 (jeotgarak, “chopsticks”)
• → Lao: ຖູ່ (thū) > ໄມ້ຖູ່ (mai thū, “chopsticks”)
• → Lü: ᦏᦴᧈ (tʰuu²) > ᦙᦺᧉᦏᦴᧈ (maj⁶tʰuu², “chopsticks”)
• → Vietnamese: đũa (“chopsticks”)
• → Zhuang: dawh (“chopsticks”)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. chopstick

• Go-on: じょ (jo)^{←ぢよ (dyo, historical)}; じゃく (jaku)^{←ぢやく (dyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょ (cho); ちゃく (chaku)
• Kun: はし (hashi, 箸, Jōyō)

• 菜 (さい)箸 (ばし) (saibashi)
• 割 (わ)り箸 (ばし) (waribashi)
• 箸 (はし)置 (お)き (hashioki, “chopstick rest”)

From Japanese 嘴 (“beak”), or its source Japanese 端 (“tip”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) は​し [háꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕi]
• Homophones: 嘴, 觜

箸 (hiragana はし, rōmaji hashi)

1. a chopstick

• おてもと (otemoto)

箸 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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箸 (giạ, trứ, chước, đũa, trợ)

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• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999