箏

箏 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹月尸木 (HBSD), four-corner 8850₇, composition ⿱𥫗爭)

• 𬘈

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 887, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26133
• Dae Jaweon: page 1315, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 2984, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7B8F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsreːŋ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

箏

1. zither

   古箏／古筝  ―  gǔzhēng  ―  guzheng

• 琴 (qín)

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: こと (koto, 箏)

• 古(こ)箏(そう) (kosō, “guzheng”)

⟨ko₂to₂⟩ → */kətə/ → /koto/

From Old Japanese.

Possibly derived from a compound of elements 木 (ko, “tree, wood”, combining form) +‎ 音 (oto, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology. Compare the development of 這(は)い入(い)る (haiiru) to 入(はい)る (hairu), or 参(まい)入(い)る (maiiru) to 参(まい)る (mairu).

• (Tokyo) こと [kóꜜtò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞to̞]

箏(こと) • (koto) 

1. koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng
2. (colloquial) guzheng: a Chinese zither where the koto was based on [since after the Edo period]

• → Dutch: koto
• → English: koto
• → Finnish: koto
• → French: koto

/sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/

From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang).

The kan'on reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

• (Tokyo) そー [sóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

箏(そう) • (sō) ^{←さう (sau)?}

1. a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither)

   Synonym: 古箏 (kosō)

• 箏(そう)曲(きょく) (sōkyoku)
• 箏(そう)の琴(こと) (sō no koto)
• 俗(ぞく)箏(そう) (zokusō)

箏(そう) • (Sō) ^{←さう (Sau)?}

1. a surname

/ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/

Appears in the Iroha Jiruishō (c. mid-late 12th century).

From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang). The goon reading, so likely a later borrowing.

箏(しょう) • (shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. (possibly obsolete) a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither), where the koto was based on

• 箏(しょう)の琴(こと) (shō no koto)

• 琴(きん) (kin, “guqin, qin”), another kind of ancient Chinese zither

箏 • (jaeng) (hangeul 쟁, revised jaeng, McCune–Reischauer chaeng, Yale cayng)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Possibly a compound of 木 (ko₂, combining form of ki₂, “tree, wood”) +‎ 音 (oto₂, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology or absence of vowel clustering.

箏 (ko₂to₂) (kana こと)

1. a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng
   • 720, Nihon Shoki, poem 41:

     訶羅怒烏之褒珥椰枳之餓阿摩離虛等珥莵句離訶枳譬句椰由羅能斗能斗那訶能異句離珥敷例多莵那豆能紀能佐椰佐椰

     Karano₁ wo sipo ni yaki₁ si ga amari ko₂to₂ ni tukuri kaki₁pi₁ku ya Yura-no₂-to₁ no₂ to₁naka no₂ ikuri ni puretatu nadu no₂ ki₂ no₂ sayasaya

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Japanese: 箏, 琴 (koto)

箏: Hán Việt readings: tranh
箏: Nôm readings: giành, tranh

1. zither (e.g., đàn tranh)