鍔

鍔 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金口口尸 (CRRS), four-corner 8612₇, composition ⿰釒咢)

1. high, lofty
2. edge of a knife

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1314, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40617
• Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4231, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9354

鍔

1. (literary) blade; edge (of a sword or knife)

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: がく (gaku)
• Kan-on: がく (gaku)
• Kun: つば (tsuba, 鍔)

/tumiha/ → /tumuba/ → /tunba/ → /t͡suba/

First attested in the late 12th century.

Shift from tsumiha or tsumiba below.

• (Tokyo) つば (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

鍔(つば) • (tsuba) 

1. the guard at the end of the grip of a sword or polearm
   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 620:
     ^[2]

     Tçuba. ツバ (鍔・鐔) 刀 (Catana)の鍔, すなわち, 刀の柄（つか）に密着している, 銅やその他の金属製の円いある種の輪.

     Tsuba - the guard of a katana; that is, a circular ring made of copper or other metal with a design stuck to the katana.

2. the brim or visor (of a hat, for example)

   帽子(ぼうし)の鍔(つば)

   bōshi no tsuba

   hat's brim

3. the brim of a kettle

⟨tumi₁pa⟩ → */tumʲipa/ → /t͡sumiɸa/ → /t͡sumiha/

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[3]

The final ha element is most likely cognate with 刃 (ha, “edge”).

Usually pronounced with rendaku (連濁), as tsumiba.

鍔(つみは) or 鍔(つみば) • (tsumiha or tsumiba) 

1. (obsolete) the guard at the end of the grip of a sword or polearm

鍔 (eum 악 (ak))

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