鏃

See also: 镞

鏃 U+93C3, 鏃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93C3 ← 鏂 [U+93C2] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏄 → [U+93C4]

Translingual

Han character

鏃 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金卜尸大 (CYSK), four-corner 8813₄, composition ⿰釒族)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1319, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40772
• Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4251, character 5
• Unihan data for U+93C3

Chinese

trad.		鏃
simp.		镞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (族) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蔟	*sʰoːɡs, *sʰoːɡ
嗾	*sʰoːɡs, *soːʔ, *soːɡs
鷟	*zroːɡ
鏃	*ʔsoːɡ
瘯	*sʰoːɡ
簇	*sʰoːɡ
族	*zoːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsoːɡ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 族 (OC *zoːɡ).

Etymology

Compare འཛུགས ('dzugs, “to insert; to plant”) (Sagart, 2017d; Hill, 2019), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-(d)z(j)u(ː)k (“to pierce; to plant; to erect”).

Sagart (2017) also compares it to Jingpho achyo (“to stab”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zú, cù (zu², cu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ, ㄘㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶ / zuk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chok / cho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zú
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zú
    • Wade–Giles: tsu²
    • Yale: dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
    • Palladius: цзу (czu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu⁴
    • Yale: tsù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
    • Palladius: цу (cu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zuk⁶ / zuk¹
    • Yale: juhk / jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹ / dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug⁶ / zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚²/, /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chok
    • Tâi-lô: tsok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zog
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tso̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zok
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔk̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsuwk

Rime
Character	鏃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	作木切
Baxter	tsuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡suk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡suk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡suk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡suk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡suk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡suk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsoːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鏃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zú
Middle Chinese	‹ tsuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁok/
English	arrowhead
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	鏃
Reading #	1/1
No.	17976
Phonetic component	族
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鏃
Old Chinese	/*ʔsoːɡ/

Definitions

鏃

1. (literary) arrowhead; barb

   • 射而不能中，與無矢者同實。中而不能入，與無鏃者同實。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     射而不能中，与无矢者同实。中而不能入，与无镞者同实。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Guanzi, 5^th century BCE to 220 CE

     Shè ér bùnéng zhòng, yǔ wú shǐ zhě tóng shí. Zhòng ér bùnéng rù, yǔ wú zú zhě tóng shí. [Pinyin]

     If the archers shoot but are not able to hit their _targets, it is the same as being without arrows. If they hit the mark but cannot pierce it, it is the same as having arrows without heads.

2. (literary) sharp
3. (literary) swift; quick

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 箭頭 (“arrowhead”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鏃
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		箭頭, 箭鏃
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	箭頭兒
	Taiwan	箭頭
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	箭頭
Cantonese	Guangzhou	箭嘴
Jin	Taiyuan	箭頭
Southern Min	Xiamen	箭頭

Compounds

• 箭鏃 / 箭镞
• 飛鏃 / 飞镞

 

References

• “鏃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

鏃

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku)
• Kan-on: そく (soku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぞく (zoku)
• Kun: やじり (yajiri, 鏃)

Noun

Kanji in this term
鏃
やじり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
矢尻

鏃(やじり) • (yajiri) 

1. arrowhead

Synonyms

• 矢(や)の根(ね) (ya no ne)

Korean

Hanja

鏃 • (jok) (hangeul 족, revised jok, McCune–Reischauer chok, Yale cok)

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