沼

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沼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水尸竹口 (ESHR), four-corner 3716₂, composition ⿰氵召)

1. lake
2. fishpond
3. swamps

• 𠶕, 𧍌, 菬, 䈃, 𦻟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17257
• Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1597, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6CBC

沼

1. pool; pond

   • 王立於沼上，顧鴻雁麋鹿，曰：「賢者亦樂此乎？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     王立于沼上，顾鸿雁麋鹿，曰：「贤者亦乐此乎？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Wáng lì yú zhǎo shàng, gù hóngyàn mílù, yuē: “Xián zhě yì yuè cǐ hū?”

     The king went and stood with him by a pond, and, looking round at the large geese and deer, said, 'Do wise and good princes also find pleasure in these things?'

• “沼”, 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)

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: ぬま (numa, 沼, Jōyō)、ぬ (nu)

From Old Japanese. Root of the Old Japanese verb ぬる (nuru, “to become loose; to become wet”) and modern Japanese 濡れる (nureru, “to become wet”), adverb ぬるぬる (nurunuru, “loosely; lukewarmly; oozingly”).

May be cognate with Korean 늪 (neup, “swamp, bog, marsh”), Ainu nup (“flat land, plain; fen”), Mongolian нам (nam, “low-lying”), намаг (namag, “swamp, bog, marsh”), норох (norox, “to become wet”).

Generally only used in compounds in modern Japanese.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

沼(ぬ) • (nu) 

1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland

• 小(お)沼(ぬ) (onu): a swamp, particularly a small one
• 隠(こもり)沼(ぬ) (komorinu): a hidden bog

• 沼間(ぬま) (Numa): a surname

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

沼

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

Marsh

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Appears to be a compound of 沼 (nu, “swamp”) +‎ 間 (ma, “space, area”).

• (Tokyo) ぬま (Odaka – )^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key):

沼(ぬま) • (numa) 

1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland
2. (slang) inescapable pit of addiction to games, etc.

   Synonym: 深沼 (fukanuma)

• 沼間(ぬま) (Numa): a surname

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/

From Middle Chinese 沼 (tsyew^X, “swamp”). Compare modern Mandarin 沼 (zhǎo).

Only ever used in compounds.

• IPA^(key):

沼(しょう) • (shō) ^{←せう (seu)?}

1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland

From Middle Chinese 沼 (MC tsyewX). Recorded as Middle Korean 쇼〯 (syǒ) (Yale: syo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

沼

Wikisource

沼 (eumhun 못 소 (mot so))

1. hanja form^? of 소 (“swamp”)
2. hanja form^? of 소 (“pond”)

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

沼: Hán Nôm readings: trẻo

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