鍬

See also: 锹
鍬 U+936C, 鍬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-936C
← 鍫
[U+936B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鍭 →
[U+936D]

Translingual

Han character

鍬 (radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹木火 (CHDF), four-corner 89180, composition ⿰釒秋)

  1. shovel

References
  • KangXi: page 1315, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4231, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+936C

Chinese
trad. 鍬
simp. 锹

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 秋 (OC *sʰɯw) – a metal shovel.

Pronunciation

Definitions
  1. A hoe (agricultural tool)

Japanese

Kanji
鍬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. hoe

Readings

Compounds
  • 豊 (とよ)鍬入 (すきいり)姫 (ひめの)命 (みこと) (Toyosukiirihime no Mikoto)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
鍬
くわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/kupa/ → /kufa/ → /kuwa/

From Old Japanese.

Ultimate derivation unknown. Possibly derived from 食う (kuu, “to eat up; to bite into”), which has a 未然形 (mizenkei, “incomplete form”) of kuwa.

Pronunciation

Noun

鍬 (hiragana くわ, rōmaji kuwa, historical hiragana くは)

  1. a hoe (agricultural tool)
    • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 61)
      都 (つ)芸 (ぎ)泥 (ね)布 (ふ)夜 (や)麻 (ま)志 (し)呂 (ろ)売 (め)能 (の)許 (こ)久 (く)波 (は)母 (も)知 (ち)宇 (う)知 (ち)斯 (し)淤 (お)富 (ほ)泥 (ね)泥 (ね)士 (じ)漏 (ろ)能 (の)斯 (し)漏 (ろ)多 (た)陀 (だ)牟 (む)岐 (き)麻 (ま)迦 (か)受 (ず)祁 (け)婆 (ば)許 (こ)曽 (そ)斯 (し)良 (ら)受 (ず)登 (と)母 (も)伊 (い)波 (は)米 (め) [Man'yōgana]
      つぎねふ山代 (やましろ)女 (め)の木 (こ)鍬 (くわ)持 (も)ち打 (う)ちし大 (おほ)根 (ね)根 (ね)白 (じろ)の白 (しろ)腕 (ただむき)枕 (ま)かずけばこそ知 (し)らずとも言 (い)はめ [Modern spelling]
      tsuginefu Yamashiro-me no kokuwa mochi uchishi ofone nejiro no shiro-tadamuki makazukeba koso shirazu to mo iwame
      (please add an English translation of this example)

Usage notes

In compounds, this term may refer more broadly to similarly shaped tools for working the earth, such as a plough or a harrow.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 鍬 (くわ)入 (い)れ (kuwa-ire)
  • 鍬弄 (くわいじ)り (kuwaijiri)
  • 鍬形 (くわがた) (kuwagata)
  • 鍬下 (くわした) (kuwashita)
  • 御 (お)鍬 (くわ)立 (た)て (o-kuwatate)
  • 鍬 (くわ)取 (と)り (kuwatori)
  • 鍬初 (くわはじ)め (kuwa-hajime)
  • 鍬平 (くわびら) (kuwabira)
  • 鍬 (くわ)箒 (ぼうき) (kuwabōki)
  • 鍬焼 (くわやき), 鍬 (くわ)焼 (や)き (kuwayaki)
  • 鐙 (あぶみ)鍬 (ぐわ) (abumiguwa)
  • 鋳 (い)鍬 (ぐわ) (iguwa)
  • 牛鍬 (うしぐわ) (ushiguwa, “oxen plough”)
  • 馬鍬 (うまぐわ) (umaguwa)
  • 金鍬 (かなぐわ) (kanaguwa)
  • 河内 (かわち)鍬 (ぐわ) (Kawachi-guwa)
  • 久六 (きゅうろく)鍬 (ぐわ) (kyūroku-guwa), 久六 (くろく)鍬 (ぐわ) (kuroku-guwa)
  • 黒鍬 (くろくわ) (kuro kuwa)
  • 格 (こう)子 (し)鍬 (ぐわ) (kōshi-guwa)
  • 木 (こ)鍬 (くわ) (kokuwa)
  • 作鍬 (さくぐわ) (sakuguwa)
  • 鋤鍬 (すきくわ) (sukikuwa)
  • 唐鍬 (とうぐわ) (tōguwa), 唐 (とう)鍬 (が) (tōga)
  • 備 (びっ)中 (ちゅう)鍬 (ぐわ) (Bitchū-guwa)
  • 踏 (ふ)み鍬 (ぐわ) (fumiguwa)
  • 馬 (ま)鍬 (ぐわ) (maguwa), 馬鍬 (まんぐわ) (manguwa), 馬 (まん)鍬 (が) (manga, “harrow”)
  • 股鍬 (またぐわ) (mataguwa)
  • 斎 (ゆ)鍬 (くわ) (yukuwa)

Idioms
  • 鍬 (くわ)を入 (い)れる (kuwa o ireru)
  • 鍬 (くわ)を抜 (ぬ)かす (kuwa o nukasu)

Proverbs
  • 縁 (えん)の下 (した)の鍬使 (くわづか)い (en no shita no kuwa-zukai)

See also

Proper noun

鍬 (hiragana くわ, rōmaji Kuwa, historical hiragana くは)

  1. a surname

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean
鍬

Hanja

鍬 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

  1. (가래 초): a spade, shovel, ploughshare

Synonyms

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

鍬 (thâu)

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