罠

See also: 𦊞 and 网民

罠	U+7F60, 罠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F60

← 罟
[U+7F5F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

罡 →
[U+7F61]

Translingual

Han character

罠 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田中口女心 (WLRVP), four-corner 6074₇, composition ⿱罒民)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 947, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28249
Dae Jaweon: page 1388, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2916, character 15
Unihan data for U+7F60

Chinese

simp. and trad.		罠
alternative forms		䋋／𱺘𦊞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眠	*miːn
民	*min
泯	min, minʔ
怋	min, mɯːn
岷	*mrin
珉	*mrin
罠	*mrin
笢	mrin, minʔ
鈱	*mrin
抿	mrɯn, mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
刡	*minʔ
敃	*mrinʔ
愍	*mrinʔ
暋	*mrinʔ
蟁	*mɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrin): semantic 罒 (“net”) + phonetic 民 (OC *min).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mín (min²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mín
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mín
  - Wade–Giles: min²
  - Yale: mín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
  - Palladius: минь (minʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /min³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: man⁴
  - Yale: màhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/

Middle Chinese: min

Rime
Character	罠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武巾切
Baxter	min
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/mien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin/
Li Rong	/mjĕn/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mrin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	罠
Reading #	1/1
No.	9135
Phonetic component	民
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrin/

Definitions

罠

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) animal trap; snare
(historical dictionaries only) alternative form of 緡 / 缗 (mín, “fishing line”)

Japanese

Kanji

罠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: みん (min)
Kan-on: びん (bin)
Kun: わな (wana, 罠)、あみ (ami, 罠)

Compounds

穴罠: a trap hole
罠(わな)猟(りょう) (wanaryō): trapping, a hunting trap
罠(わな)猟(りょう)師(し) (wana ryōshi): a trapper

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
罠
わな Hyōgai
kun'yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) わな [wáꜜnà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [β̞a̠na̠]

Noun

罠(わな) • (wana)

a trap, a snare
a trick, a prank

Derived terms

罠者: trapper
罠師: trap master; a Master Trapper

Idioms

罠拵(わなこしら)えて首突(くびつ)っ込(こ)む (wana koshiraete kubi tsukkomu): “set a trap and get (your own) head stuck” → to set a trap but catch yourself: hoist by one's own petard

Etymology 2

Ateji used to spell わ (wa) + な (na), both sentence-final emphatic particles. Usage developed on online message boards.

Pronunciation

Equivalent to 罠 above, or to the particles わ+な.

Particle

罠(わな) • (wana)

(sentence-final) Equivalent to わ (wa, “emphatic particle”) + な (na, “emotive/emphatic particle”)
そうだ罠(わな)
sō da wana
That's right, for real.

References

^ 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
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

罠 (eum 민 (min))

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[NHK-1] 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

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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