箱

Translingual

Han character

箱 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月山 (HDBU), four-corner 8896₃, composition ⿱𥫗相)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 890, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26209
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2989, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7BB1

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slaŋ) : semantic 𥫗 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 相 (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) – a bamboo box.

Pronunciation

Definitions

箱

1. (large) box; chest; trunk

   拎住一大箱嘢 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ling¹ zyu⁶ jat¹ daai⁶ soeng¹ je⁵

   carrying a great box of things

2. box-shaped thing
3. Classifier for boxes or chests.
4. Alternative form of 廂／厢 (xiāng, “side room”)

Synonyms

• (box):

See also

• 匣 (xiá), 盒 (hé): (small) box

Compounds

References

• “箱”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. box

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: はこ (hako, 箱, Jōyō)

Etymology

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

箱

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Box

Wikipedia

/pako/ → /fako/ → /hako/

From Old Japanese pako. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. In turn, from Proto-Japonic *pako.

This term originally referred to a kind of wicker basket or box introduced from continental Asia, and the word is thought to be a borrowing from, or cognate with, a predecessor form of modern Korean 바구니 (baguni, “basket”). Compare Middle Korean 바고니〮 (pàkwòní).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はこ (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

箱(はこ) • (hako) 

1. a box: a container with a lid

   父(ちち)が柿(かき)の一(ひと)箱(はこ)を送(おく)ってくれた。

   Chichi ga kaki no hitohako o okutte kureta.

   My father sent me a box of persimmons.

2. (archaic) a chamber pot for feces; (by extension) feces
3. (archaic) a shamisen case; (by extension) a shamisen; (by extension) a man or other geisha who accompanies a geisha and carries their shamisen case
4. (slang) small ライブハウス (raibu hausu, “music venue”)
5. (Internet slang) Xbox

   箱(はこ)コン ― hakokon ― Xbox controller

   箱(はこ)信者(しんじゃ) ― hako shinja ― Xbox fanboy/fangirl

Synonyms

• ボックス (bokkusu)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Amis: hako
• → Sakizaya: haku

References

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 箱 (MC sjang). Recorded as Middle Korean 샤ᇰ (syang) (Yale: syang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

箱

Wikisource

箱 (eumhun 상자 상 (sangja sang))

1. Hanja form^? of 상 (“box”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: はく (haku, 箱)

Etymology

Attested in the Liúqiú guăn yìyŭ (琉球館譯語), 1469-1470, as 法个 (fako).

In turn, from Proto-Ryukyuan *pako, from Proto-Japonic *pako.

Cognate with Japanese 箱 (hako).

Pronunciation

• (Shuri) は​く (Kakō – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

箱(はく) (haku) 

1. box

Suffix

箱(はく) (-haku) 

1. used to count boxes

   一箱(ちゅはく)、二箱(たはく)

   chuhaku, tahaku

   one box, two boxes

References

Vietnamese

Han character

箱: Hán Nôm readings: sương, tương, rương

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