宝

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See also: 寶
宝 U+5B9D, 宝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B9D
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Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes
Japanese 宝
Simplified 宝
Traditional 寶

Han character

宝 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一土戈 (JMGI), four-corner 30103, composition ⿱宀玉)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 284, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7122
  • Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5B9D

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 寶 (⿱珤貝 → 玉). Officially adopted as the simplified form of 寶 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 宝 – see 寶 (“treasure; riches; valuables; precious thing; to treasure; to cherish; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 寶).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

宝

Kyūjitai

寶

Kanji

宝

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寶)

  1. precious objects
  2. worldly goods
  3. valuable possessions

Readings

  • Go-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
  • Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
  • Kun: たから (takara, 宝, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
宝
たから
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
寶 (kyūjitai)
財
貨

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *takara.

Samuel Martin analyzes this as a compound of 高 (taka-, “high”) + 等 (-ra, pluralizing suffix).[2] However, this is semantically problematic, as such a compound would ordinarily refer to "the heights" as a location, and there is no clear means of deriving the sense of "treasure" from the proposed component parts.

Some sources derive this as a compound of 田 (ta, “paddy field”) +‎ から (kara, “from”), literally “from the paddy fields”, from the way people value thriving paddy fields as a unique kind of treasure.[3] However, the sense of "from" for から (kara) does not appear until roughly the Heian period,[4] more recent than the first appearance of takara, making this a folk etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

宝(たから) • (takara) 

  1. treasure

References

  1. ^ “宝・財・貨”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN
  3. ^ 宝は田から～私たちの原点～ | 宝酒造株式会社 - Treasure is from the rice fields -Our Beginning- | Takara Shuzo (In Japanese)
  4. ^ “から”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  5. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  7. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

宝 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)

  1. jewel

Vietnamese

Han character

宝: Hán Nôm readings: bảo, báu, bửu

  1. Variant of 寶, see there for more details.

References

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