峠

峠 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山卜一卜 (UYMY), four-corner 2173₁, composition ⿰山𠧗)

1. mountain pass
2. crisis, climax

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 311, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8068
• Dae Jaweon: page 611, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 770, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5CE0

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 峠 (tōge).

Spelling pronunciation, as 卡 (kǎ).

峠

1. Used in Japanese place names.

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 山 (“mountain”) + 上 (“up; ascend”) + 下 (“down; descend”).

Compare 裃(かみしも) (kamishimo), 垰(たお) (tao).

(Jōyō kanji)

• Kun: とうげ (tōge, 峠, Jōyō)^{←たうげ (tauge, 峠, historical)}
• Nanori: たわ (tawa)、たわとう (tawatō)

/tamuke/ → /tauɡe/ → /toːɡe/

Sound shift from 手向け (tamuke, “tribute to a person about to depart”).^[1][2] It is said that these offerings were "given" to them as they traveled into the afterlife, akin to a mountain. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Tokyo) とーげ (Odaka – )^[1][3]
• IPA^(key):

峠(とうげ) • (tōge) ^{←たうげ (tauge)?}

1. mountain pass, ridge
2. (figurative) crisis, climax

• 洞(ほら)ヶ峠(とうげ)を決(き)め込(こ)む (Horagatōge o kimekomu, “to wait for a good opportunity”, literally “to wait and see at Horagatōge”)

峠(たうげ) • (Tauge) 

1. a surname

峠(とうげ) • (Tōge) ^{←たうげ (Tauge)?}

1. A place name.
2. a surname

Various nanori readings.

峠(たお) or 峠(たおげ) or 峠(とおげ) or 峠(どうげさき) • (Tao or Taoge or Tōge or Dōgesaki) 

1. a surname

峠 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang)

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