宝
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Translingual
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| Japanese | 宝 |
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| Simplified | 宝 |
| Traditional | 寶 |
Han character
宝 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一土戈 (JMGI), four-corner 30103, composition ⿱宀玉)
Derived characters
Related characters
- 寶 (Traditional form of 宝)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 284, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7122
- Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 10
- Unihan data for U+5B9D
Chinese
Glyph origin
Simplified from 寶 (⿱珤貝 → 玉). Officially adopted as the simplified form of 寶 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of 宝 – see 寶 (“treasure; riches; valuables; precious thing; to treasure; to cherish; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 寶). |
Notes:
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Japanese
| 宝 | |
| 寶 |
Kanji
(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寶)
Readings
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 宝 |
| たから Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
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| 寶 (kyūjitai) 財 貨 幣 |
From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *takara.
Samuel Martin analyzes this as a compound of 高 (taka-, “high”) + 等 (-ra, pluralizing suffix).[2] However, this is semantically problematic, as such a compound would ordinarily refer to "the heights" as a location, and there is no clear means of deriving the sense of "treasure" from the proposed component parts.
Some sources derive this as a compound of 田 (ta, “paddy field”) + から (kara, “from”), literally “from the paddy fields”, from the way people value thriving paddy fields as a unique kind of treasure.[3] However, the sense of "from" for から (kara) does not appear until roughly the Heian period,[4] more recent than the first appearance of takara, making this a folk etymology.
Pronunciation
Noun
宝 • (takara)
- [from 759] treasure
References
- ^ “宝・財・貨”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN
- ^ 宝は田から～私たちの原点～ | 宝酒造株式会社 - Treasure is from the rice fields -Our Beginning- | Takara Shuzo (In Japanese)
- ^ “から”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
宝 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)
Vietnamese
Han character
宝: Hán Nôm readings: bảo, báu, bửu
- Variant of 寶, see there for more details.