釣

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See also: 钓
釣 U+91E3, 釣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91E3
← 釢
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 釤 →

Translingual

Han character

釣 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金心戈 (CPI), four-corner 87120, composition ⿰釒勺)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1296, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4173, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+91E3

Chinese

trad. 釣
simp. 钓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釣
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (勺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
豹 *preːwɢs
趵 *preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥 *breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹 *ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓 *plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約 *ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚 *pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣 *pleːwɢs
瘹 *teːwɢs
芍 *ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌 *pljewɢ
灼 *pljewɢ
勺 *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴 *pljewɢ
犳 *pljewɢ
妁 *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋 *bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢 *bljewɢ
葯 *qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿 *lewɢ
肑 *preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝 *breːwɢ
的 *pleːwɢ
靮 *pleːwɢ
馰 *pleːwɢ
玓 *pleːwɢ
魡 *pleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pleːwɢs) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tiò - vernacular;
  • tiàu - literary.
Note:
  • dion3 - Shantou;
  • diên3 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 釣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 多嘯切
Baxter tewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/teuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/teuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/teuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɛwH/
Li
Rong 		/teuH/
Wang
Li 		/tieuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		diào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		diu3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 釣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		diào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tewH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁewk-s/
English to angle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 釣
Reading # 1/1
No. 11183
Phonetic
component 		勺
Rime
group 		豹
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		弔
Old
Chinese 		/*pleːwɢs/

Definitions

釣

  1. to fish; to angle
    釣魚／钓鱼  ―  diàoyú  ―  to fish
  2. (figurative) to go after; to tempt; to lure
  3. fishhook

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 釣鉤 (“hook for fishing; fishhook”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 魚鉤, 釣鉤
Northeastern Mandarin Harbin 魚鉤
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 魚鉤兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 魚鉤兒, 釣魚鉤兒
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 釣魚鉤兒
Xining 釣魚鉤兒
Xuzhou 釣魚鉤兒, 魚鉤子, 釣魚鉤子
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 魚鉤
Ürümqi 魚鉤兒
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 魚鉤, 魚鉤兒
Wuhan 釣魚鉤子
Guiyang 釣魚鉤, 魚鉤
Liuzhou 釣魚鉤, 釣鉤
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 魚鉤
Yangzhou 釣魚鉤子, 魚鉤子
Cantonese Guangzhou 釣魚鉤
Hong Kong 釣魚鉤
Taishan 魚鉤
Dongguan 釣魚鉤, 魚鉤
Gan Nanchang 魚鉤
Lichuan 魚鉤
Pingxiang 魚鉤
Hakka Meixian 釣鉤仔
Yudu 魚鉤子, 釣魚鉤子
Huizhou Jixi 魚鉤
Jin Taiyuan 魚鉤子
Xinzhou 釣魚兒鉤子
Northern Min Jian'ou 釣魚鉤
Eastern Min Fuzhou 魚鉤, 釣魚鉤
Southern Min Xiamen 釣仔
Quanzhou 釣仔
Zhangzhou 釣仔
Tainan 釣鉤 GT
Shantou 釣魚鉤
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 釣魚鉤
Wu Shanghai 釣魚鉤
Shanghai (Chongming) 釣魚鉤
Suzhou 釣魚鉤子, 釣魚鉤
Danyang 魚鉤
Hangzhou 釣魚鉤兒
Ningbo 釣魚鉤
Wenzhou 魚鉤, 釣魚鉤兒
Jinhua 釣魚鉤兒
Xiang Changsha 釣魚鉤子
Loudi 釣
Note GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

釣

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. fishing, angling, catching
  2. change, small cash

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

釣 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

釣: Hán Nôm readings: điếu

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