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U+5CE0, 峠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CE0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 46, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山卜一卜 (UYMY), four-corner 21731, composition 𠧗)

  1. mountain pass
  2. crisis, climax

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 311, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8068
  • Dae Jaweon: page 611, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 770, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5CE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese (tōge).

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as ().

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Used in Japanese place names.

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, Japanese-coined character).

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (mountain) + (up; ascend) + (down; descend).

Compare (かみしも) (kamishimo), (たお) (tao).

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Kun: とうげ (tōge, , Jōyō)たうげ (tauge, , historical)
  • Nanori: たわ (tawa)たわとう (tawatō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
とうげ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/tamuke//tauɡe//toːɡe/

Sound shift from 手向け (tamuke, tribute to a person about to depart).[1][2] It is said that these offerings were "given" to them as they traveled into the afterlife, akin to a mountain. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

(とうげ) (tōgeたうげ (tauge)?

  1. mountain pass, ridge
  2. (figurative) crisis, climax
Derived terms
Proverbs

Proper noun

(たうげ) (Tauge

  1. a surname

(とうげ) (Tōgeたうげ (Tauge)?

  1. A place name.
  2. a surname

Etymology 2

Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

(たお) or (たおげ) or (とおげ) or (どうげさき) (Tao or Taoge or Tōge or Dōgesaki

  1. a surname

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(sang) (hangeul , revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang)

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