錠

錠 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金十一人 (CJMO), four-corner 8318₁, composition ⿰釒定)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1311, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40559
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4224, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9320

錠

1. spindle
2. ingot-shaped tablet (of metal, medicine, etc.)
3. Classifier for ingot-shaped objects: ingot

• “錠”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

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• Go-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}、ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: じょうまえ (jōmae, じょうまえ)^{←ぢやうまへ (dyaumafe, 錠, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 錠 (MC dengH|tengH). Compare modern Mandarin 錠／锭 (dìng).

• 鎖

• (Tokyo) じょー (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

錠(じょう) • (jō) ^{←ぢやう (dyau)?}

1. a device used to make a door unopenable: a lock
   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 367:
     ^[2]

     Iŏ. ジャウ (鎖) 錠. 例, Iŏuo vorosu. (鎖を下ろす) 錠をおろす. Iŏuo aquru. (鎖を開くる) 錠をあける.

• 鍵(かぎ) (kagi): a key

錠(じょう) • (-jō) ^{←ぢやう (-dyau)?}

1. lozenge (of medicine)

Compound of 鎖 (jō, “chain”) +‎ 前 (mae, “front”), in reference to the padlock on the front of a chain keeping a door or gate closed. The use of 錠 is an example of ateji.^[3]

• 錠前

• (Tokyo) じょーまえ (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

錠(じょうまえ) • (jōmae) ^{←ぢやうまへ (dyaumafe)?} (rare)

1. Alternative spelling of 錠前 (“lock, padlock”)

錠 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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