See also:
U+92F8, 鋸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92F8

[U+92F7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+92F9]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金尸十口 (CSJR), four-corner 87164, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𢤹

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1308, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40505
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1810, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4226, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+92F8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kas): semantic + phonetic (OC *kɯ, *kas).

Etymology 1

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

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ge4 - vernacular;
  • ju4 - literary.
Note:
  • goe3 - vernacular;
  • geoi3 - literary.
Note:
  • gie4 - vernacular;
  • jy4 - literary.
Note:
  • 2ke - vernacular;
  • 2jy - literary.
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: ge4 / ge5 / jy4
      • Sinological IPA (key): /kɤ̞⁴⁵/, /kɤ̞²¹/, /t͡ɕy⁴⁵/
Note:
  • ge4, ge5 - vernacular;
  • jy4 - literary.

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (28)
    Final () (22)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () III
    Fanqie
    Baxter kjoH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /kɨʌH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /kiɔH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /kiɔH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /kɨə̆H/
    Li
    Rong
    /kiɔH/
    Wang
    Li
    /kĭoH/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren
    /ki̯woH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    geoi3
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ kjoH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*k(r)a-s/
    English saw (n.)

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 4274
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*kas/

    Definitions

    1. saw (tool) (Classifier: m c)
    2. to saw
    3. to amputate
    4. (dialectal) to play (a stringed instrument)
    Synonyms
    • (saw):
    • (to play):

    Compounds

    Descendants

    • Vietnamese: cưa

    Etymology 2

    trad.
    simp.
    alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    Definitions

    1. to kill; to slaughter
      尋晚 [Cantonese, trad.]
      寻晚 [Cantonese, simp.]
      cam4 maan5 keoi5 bei2 jan4 goe1 zo2. [Jyutping]
      He was killed last night.
    2. (Cantonese, figuratively) to swindle (to obtain by deceitful methods)

    Etymology 3

    For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“cramp used for mending broken crockery; to mend with cramps; etc.”).
    (This character is a variant form of ).

    References

    • ”, 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–
    • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “锯(~子、~树)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 140.

    Japanese

    Kanji

    (Jinmeiyō kanji)

    1. saw

    Readings

    • Go-on: (ko)
    • Kan-on: きょ (kyo)
    • Kun: のこぎり (nokogiri, )のこ (noko, )

    Etymology

    Kanji in this term
    のこぎり
    Jinmeiyō
    kun'yomi

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

    Noun

    (のこぎり) or (ノコギリ) • (nokogiri

    1. a saw (tool)
      • 2000 June 23, “インセクション [Insection]”, in Booster(ブースター) R1, Konami:
        (あたま)ノコギリ(ほか)に、(うで)ノコギリになっているクワガタ。
        Atama no nokogiri no hoka ni, ude mo nokogiri ni natte iru kuwagata.
        In addition to the saw on its head, a stag beetle also has saws on its arms.

    Derived terms

    Korean

    Hanja

    (eum (geo))

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    : Hán Nôm readings: cưa

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