靴

靴 (radical 177, 革+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿十人心 (TJOP), four-corner 4451₀, composition ⿰革化)

• 㗾, 𢶤, 𬩑, 𫫸, 𬆌

• KangXi: page 1385, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42729
• Dae Jaweon: page 1900, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4327, character 21
• Unihan data for U+9774

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hʷa) : semantic 革 (“leather”) + phonetic 化 (OC *hŋʷraːls).

靴

1. boot (footwear)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: くつ (kutsu, 靴, Jōyō)

⟨kutu⟩: */kutu/ → /kut͡su/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū poetry compilation, completed circa 759.[1]

Ultimate derivation unclear. Some Japanese sources suggest a borrowing from Korean 구두 (gudu, “shoes”), but then some Korean sources suggest that the Korean term was borrowed from Japanese 靴 (kutsu, “shoes”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) くつ​ [kùtsúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟̊ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

• 沓, 履, 鞋, 鞾 (all less common)

靴 (hiragana くつ, rōmaji kutsu)

1. footwear, footgear: a shoe, (a pair of) shoes
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3399), text here:

     信濃道者 伊麻能波里美知 可里婆祢尓 安思布麻之<奈牟> 久都波氣和我世

     信 (しな)濃 (ぬ)道 (ぢ)は　今 (いま)の墾 (は)り道 (みち)　刈 (か)りばねに　足 (あし)踏 (ふ)ましなむ　沓 (くつ)はけ我 (わ)が背 (せ)

     shinanuji wa ima no harimichi karibane ni ashi fumashinamu kutsu hake wagase

     the Shinano road has just been opened; wear shoes, my brother / my dear, so you do not step on the brush stubble [in your bare feet]

• シューズ (shūzu)

靴 • (hwa) (hangeul 화, McCune–Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

1. (가죽 신 화, gajuk-sin-): footwear made of leather

• 木靴 (목화, mokhwa) The courtesy footwear in the Eastern tradition, as worn by courtiers, somewhat similar to the moccasin made of deerskin.
• 洋靴 (양화, yanghwa) Western shoes, boots
• 長靴 (장화, janghwa) boots

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as ふや.[1]

靴 (hiragana ふや, romaji fuya)

1. shoe

靴 (ngoa)

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