箏

Translingual

Han character

箏 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹月尸木 (HBSD), four-corner 8850₇, composition ⿱𥫗爭)

Derived characters

• 𬘈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 887, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26133
• Dae Jaweon: page 1315, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 2984, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7B8F

Chinese

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• 箏

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsreːŋ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

Pronunciation

Definitions

箏

1. zither

   古箏／古筝  ―  gǔzhēng  ―  guzheng

Descendants

Compounds

See also

• 琴 (qín)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: こと (koto, 箏)

Compounds

• 古(こ)箏(そう) (kosō, “guzheng”)

Etymology 1

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

箏

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Koto (musical instrument)

Wikipedia

⟨ko₂to₂⟩ → */kətə/ → /koto/

From Old Japanese.

Possibly derived from a compound of elements 木 (ko, “tree, wood”, combining form) +‎ 音 (oto, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こ​と (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

箏(こと) • (koto) 

1. koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng
2. (colloquial) guzheng: a Chinese zither where the koto was based on

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: koto

Etymology 2

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

古筝

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Guzheng

Wikipedia

/sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/

From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang).

The kan'on reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そ​ー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

箏(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither)

   Synonym: 古箏 (kosō)

Derived terms

• 箏(そう)曲(きょく) (sōkyoku)
• 箏(そう)の琴(こと) (sō no koto)
• 俗(ぞく)箏(そう) (zokusō)

Proper noun

箏(そう) • (Sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. a surname

Etymology 3

/ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/

Appears in the Iroha Jiruishō (c. mid-late 12th century).

From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang). The goon reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Noun

箏(しょう) • (shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. (possibly obsolete) a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither), where the koto was based on

Derived terms

• 箏(しょう)の琴(こと) (shō no koto)

See also

• 琴(きん) (kin, “guqin, qin”), another kind of ancient Chinese zither

References

Korean

Hanja

箏 • (jaeng) (hangeul 쟁, revised jaeng, McCune–Reischauer chaeng, Yale cayng)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Old Japanese

Etymology

Possibly a compound of 木 (ko₂, combining form of ki₂, “tree, wood”) +‎ 音 (oto₂, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology or absence of vowel clustering.

Noun

箏 (ko₂to₂) (kana こと)

1. a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng
   • 720, Nihon Shoki, (poem 41):

     訶羅怒烏之褒珥椰枳之餓阿摩離虛等珥莵句離訶枳譬句椰由羅能斗能斗那訶能異句離珥敷例多莵那豆能紀能佐椰佐椰

     Karano₁ wo sipo ni yaki₁ si ga amari ko₂to₂ ni tukuri kaki₁pi₁ku ya Yura-no₂-to₁ no₂ to₁naka no₂ ikuri ni puretatu nadu no₂ ki₂ no₂ sayasaya

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Japanese: 箏, 琴 (koto)

Vietnamese

Han character

箏: Hán Việt readings: tranh
箏: Nôm readings: giành, tranh

1. zither (e.g., đàn tranh)

Compounds