鞬

Translingual

Han character

鞬 (Kangxi radical 177, 革+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿十弓大手 (TJNKQ), four-corner 4504₄, composition ⿰革建)

1. a leather case for bow and arrow

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1390, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42934
• Dae Jaweon: page 1904, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4341, character 5
• Unihan data for U+97AC

Baekje

Etymology

Probably inflecting stem *k(j)ə- + gerundive *-n, the latter being attested as Old Korean 隱 (*-n).

Connected to Middle Korean 하 (ha-, “to be many, to be great”), Old Korean *흐그 (*huku-) > Middle Korean 크〮 (khú, “to be large”).

Adjective

鞬 (*k(j)ə-n) (Nihon Shoki 琨 or コニ or コ)

1. big, great

Reconstruction notes

Attested as 鞬 (MC kjon) in Book of Zhou, as part of a compound word.

Attested primarily in compounds as コニ (*koni) or sometimes コ (*ko) in kana glosses to the Nihon Shoki. コニ (*koni) may be a transcription of *k(j)ə-n because Old Japanese lacked coda *-n, or alternatively a transcription of the sequence *k(j)ə-n i "the great one"; compare Middle Korean 크〮니〮 (khún í, “id.”). Also attested in the original text as 琨 (MC kwon).

Perhaps also attested as 近 (MC gj+nX|gj+nH), an element in the titles of several Baekje kings: 近肖古王 (Geun-Chogo-wang), 近仇首王 (Geun-Gusu-wang), etc. These titles are also attested in forms that lack 近, showing that it is a separate, detachable element.

Derived terms

• 鞬吉支 (*kən-kici, “king (of Baekje)”)

References

• John Bentley (2000) “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon shoki”, in Language Research‎, volume 36, number 2, Seoul National University, pages 417—443
• Alexander Vovin (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎, volume 15, number 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 222—240

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kan) : semantic 革 + phonetic 建 (OC *kans).

Etymology 1

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05631
• “鞬”, 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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. quiver on a horse
2. store

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken); こん (kon); ごん (gon)
• Kun: ゆみぶくろ (yumibukuro)

Korean

Hanja

鞬 • (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)

1. a leather case for bow and arrow
2. bundle