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Translingual
Han character
縄 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火田中山 (VFWLU), composition ⿰糹⿻日电)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 933, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27729
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3426, character 6
- Unihan data for U+7E04
Chinese
Japanese
Kanji
縄
(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 繩)
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
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From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *napa. Derived from verb 綯う (nau, “to plait or twist together into twine or line”).
Pronunciation
Noun
縄 • (nawa) ←なは (nafa)?
- a rope, a flexible, heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN