橋

Translingual

Han character

橋 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木竹大月 (DHKB), four-corner 4292₇, composition ⿰木喬)

Derived characters

• 𡳯, 𧂼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 553, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15526
• Dae Jaweon: page 941, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1292, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6A4B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 橋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrew) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 喬 (OC *krew, *ɡrew).

Etymology 1

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 橋 (消歧義) (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 橋 (Classical)
• 橋 (搞清楚) (Cantonese)
• 橋 (Gan)
• 橋 (Southern Min)
• 桥 (Wu)

Possibly related to 撟 (OC *krew, *krewʔ, “to raise; to lift”), 高 (OC *kaːw, “high; tall”) (Liu, 1999).

Pronunciation

Definitions

橋

1. (countable) bridge (over a river) (Classifier: 座 m c mn; 道 m g; 條／条 c h mn mn-t; 戙 c; 板 h mn)

   橋樑／桥梁  ―  qiáoliáng  ―  bridge

   廊橋／廊桥  ―  lángqiáo  ―  covered bridge

2. (countable) bridge-like object: footbridge; beam; crosspiece
3. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ɟow
• → Vietnamese: cầu
• → Zhuang: giuz

Etymology 2

Changed tone variant of etymology 1.

Pronunciation

Definitions

橋

1. (Cantonese, countable) idea; plan (Classifier: 條／条 c)
2. (Cantonese, countable) plot; storyline (Classifier: 條／条 c)

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

橋

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 巧 (kiu2, “coincidental”)

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

橋

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Alternative forms

• (variant) 𣘺
• (variant) 槗
• (variant) 𫞎

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kun: はし (hashi, 橋, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ばせ (base)

Compounds

Etymology

/pasi/ → /ɸasi/ → /hasi/

From Old Japanese, originally indicating either the area between two things, or a connection between two things.

Cognate with 階 (hashi, “stairs from a garden up to the house”), both cognate with root hasa indicating the narrow area between two things, as in 狭間 (classical hasama, modern hazama, “narrow gap between two things”) or 挟む (hasamu, “to put between two things that are close together, to squeeze between two things”). Cognate also with root hoso indicating the narrowness of a thing itself, as in 細い (hosoi, “narrow, slender”), 細める (hosomeru, “to narrow something, to make something narrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はし​ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

橋(はし) • (hashi) 

1. that which is constructed to connect two points for the purpose of transportation: a bridge
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 16:
     :

     旋澓 梁力將反橋也二字波之

   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 43:
     :

     橋梁 上波之下宇都波利

2. a bridge-like walkway or corridor between two buildings in a manor, palace, castle, or similar structure
3. a person who acts as a bridge between different people: a mediator, a go-between

Synonyms

• (bridge for traffic): 橋梁(きょうりょう) (kyōryō)
• (corridor): 渡(わた)り廊下(ろうか) (watarirōka), 渡殿(わたどの) (watadono), 長橋(ながはし) (nagahashi)
• (mediator): 仲(なか)立(だ)ち (nakadachi), 仲介(ちゅうかい) (chūkai)

References

Korean

Hanja

橋 (eumhun 다리 교 (dari gyo))

1. Hanja form^? of 교 (“bridge”).

橋 (eumhun 빠를 고 (ppareul go))

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Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ぱㇲ (pas)

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 橋(はし) (hashi).

Noun

橋(ぱㇲ) (pas) 

1. a bridge

Vietnamese

Han character

橋: Hán Nôm readings: kiều, cầu, kéo, kèo

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