錨

錨 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金廿田 (CTW), four-corner 8416₀, composition ⿰釒苗)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1312, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40598
• Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4216, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9328

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 苗 (OC *mrew).

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

錨

1. anchor

• (Min Nan) “Query for 錨”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: びょう (byō)^{←べう (beu, historical)}
• Kun: いかり (ikari, 錨)

Derivation ultimately unknown. Possibly cognate with or derived from Old Japanese 海石 (ikuri, “sea rock, outcrop at sea”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Appears in the Harima Fudoki of 715 CE.^[1]

Reconstructed as deriving from Proto-Japonic *ikari.

• (Tokyo) いかり [ìkárí] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ika̠ɾʲi]

錨(いかり) • (ikari) 

1. (nautical) an anchor (tool to moor a vessel into the sea bottom)
2. an anchor-shaped tool on the end of a rope or other line, used to secure the line
3. an anchor-shaped grapnel
4. a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) in the shape of an anchor

• 錨(いかり)を打(う)つ (ikari o utsu)
• 錨(いかり)を下(お)ろす (ikari o orosu)

/beu/ → */bɨəː/ → /bjoː/

From Middle Chinese 錨 (MC *mˠiᴇu).

錨(びょう) • (byō) ^{←べう (beu)?}

1. (nautical) anchor

• アンカー (ankā)

錨 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo) ^[1]

1. (닻): anchor

• 碇 (정, jeong) ^[2]
• 椗 (정, jeong) ^[3]

• 묘박(錨泊) (myobak, “anchorage, moorage”)

• 碇

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Kun: いかい (ikai, 錨)、いちゃい (ichai, 錨)

錨(いかい) or 錨(いちゃい) (ikai or ichai) 

1. anchor

   Synonyms: アンカー (ankā)

錨: Hán Nôm readings: miêu

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