磚

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See also: 砖 and 𥐯
磚 U+78DA, 磚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78DA
← 磙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 磛 →

Translingual

Han character

磚 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一口十戈戈 (MRJII), four-corner 15643, composition ⿰石專)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 835, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24418
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1252, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2452, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+78DA

Chinese

trad. 磚
simp. 砖
alternative forms 磗
塼／砖
甎／砖
㼷
𥶸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竱 *toːn, *tjonʔ
團 *doːn
摶 *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
慱 *doːn
剸 *doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟 *doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙 *doːn
鷒 *doːn, *tjon
轉 *tonʔ, *tons
傳 *tons, *don, *dons
囀 *tons
縳 *donʔ, *dons
專 *tjon
磚 *tjon
甎 *tjon
塼 *tjon
嫥 *tjon
膞 *tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄 *tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴 *djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjon) : semantic 石 (“rock”) + phonetic 專 (OC *tjon).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chng/chuiⁿ - vernacular;
  • choan - literary.
Rime
Character 磚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職緣切
Baxter tsywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cwian/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zyun1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 磚
Reading # 1/1
No. 17684
Phonetic
component 		專
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		專
Old
Chinese 		/*tjon/
Notes 塼後起或體

Definitions

磚

  1. brick (Classifier: 塊／块 m)
  2. tile; paving
  3. (computing slang, figurative) brick (an electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete)
    變磚／变砖  ―  biànzhuān  ―  (electronic devices) to become unfunctional

Synonyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

磚

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. brick

Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)
  • Kun: かわら (kawara, 磚)

Korean

Hanja

磚 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

磚: Hán Nôm readings: chuyên, gạch

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