矰

矰 U+77F0, 矰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77F0 ← 矯 [U+77EF] CJK Unified Ideographs 矱 → [U+77F1]

Translingual

Han character

矰 (Kangxi radical 111, 矢や+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人ひと大だい金田かねだ日び (OKCWA), four-corner 8848₆, composition ⿰矢や曾)

1. short arrow

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 825, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24017
• Dae Jaweon: page 1239, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2587, character 3
• Unihan data for U+77F0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		矰
alternative forms		蹭 𢎒 𢨉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 矰
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 (曾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
潧	*ʔsrɯn
繒	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
增ぞう	*ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
憎にく	*ʔsɯːŋ
磳	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
曾	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
矰	*ʔsɯːŋ
罾	*ʔsɯːŋ
熷	*ʔsɯːŋ
竲	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
橧	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
譄	*ʔsɯːŋ
蹭	*sʰɯːŋs
層そう	*zɯːŋ
贈おく	*zɯːŋs
僧そう	*sɯːŋ
鬙	*sɯːŋ
甑こしき	*ʔsɯŋs
鄫	*zɯŋ
驓	*zɯŋ
嶒	*zɯŋ
噌	*sʰɯːŋ
鏳	*zrɯːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *ʔsɯːŋ) : semantic 矢や (“arrow”) + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zēng (zeng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zeng
    • Wade–Giles: tsêng¹
    • Yale: dzēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeng
    • Palladius: цзэн (czɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zang¹
    • Yale: jāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsong

Rime
Character	矰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	精せい (13)
Final (韻いん)	登とう (129)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I
Fanqie	作さく滕切きり
Baxter	tsong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡səŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡səŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡səŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡səŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡səŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡səŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zang1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	矰
Reading #	1/1
No.	16617
Phonetic component	曾
Rime group	蒸ふけ
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯːŋ/

Definitions

矰

1. an ancient type of arrow used for shooting birds which was tied to a silk rope

Compounds

• 矰弋
• 矰繳／矰缴
• 矰繳之の說せつ／矰缴之の说

 

Japanese

Kanji

矰

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. arrow with attached silk cord

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)

Korean

Hanja

矰 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

1. arrow with attached silk cord