縄

See also: 繩 and 绳

縄	U+7E04, 縄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E04

← 縃
[U+7E03]

CJK Unified Ideographs

縅 →
[U+7E05]

Translingual

Traditional	繩
Shinjitai	縄
Simplified	绳

Han character

縄 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火田中山 (VFWLU), composition ⿰糹 ⿻日电)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 933, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27729
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3426, character 6
Unihan data for U+7E04

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 縄 – see 繩 (“string; rope; to restrict; to restrain; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 繩).

Japanese

Shinjitai	縄
Kyūjitai	繩

Kanji

縄

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 繩)

Readings

Go-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō)
Kan-on: しょう (shō)
Kun: なわ (nawa, 縄, Jōyō)^{←なは (nafa, 縄, historical)}、ただす (tadasu, 縄す)

Compounds

縄墨(じょうぼく) (jōboku)
縄文(じょうもん) (jōmon)
規矩準縄(きくじゅんじょう) (kikujunjō)
結縄(けつじょう) (ketsujō)
自縄自縛(じじょうじばく) (jijōjibaku)
準縄(じゅんじょう) (junjō)
捕縄(ほじょう) (hojō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
縄
なわ Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
繩 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *napa. Derived from verb 綯う (nau, “to plait or twist together into twine or line”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) なわ [nàwáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [na̠β̞a̠]

Noun

縄(なわ) • (nawa) ^{←なは (nafa)^?}

a rope, a flexible, heavy cord of tightly intertwined hemp or other fiber

Derived terms

縄跳(なわと)び (nawatobi)
縄抜(なわぬ)け (nawanuke)
縄張(なわば)り (nawabari)
麻縄(あさなわ) (asanawa): hempen rope
招縄(おきなわ) (okinawa)
沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa)
注連縄(しめなわ) (shimenawa)
捕縄(とりなわ) (torinawa)
投(な)げ縄(なわ) (nagenawa)
延縄(はえなわ) (haenawa)
火縄(ひなわ) (hinawa)
輪縄(わなわ) (wanawa)

See also

糸(いと) (ito, “thread”)
紐(ひも) (himo, “string”)

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third 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