鏝

鏝 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金日田水 (CAWE), four-corner 8614₇, composition ⿰釒曼)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1320, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40807
• Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4248, character 13
• Unihan data for U+93DD

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moːn, *moːns): semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 幕?”)

鏝

1. side of a coin without written characters; heads

   Antonym: 字 (zì)

2. (archaic) money; cash

鏝

1. (literary) trowel

• “鏝”, 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–

Combination of the radical 金 (“money”) and short form of 曼城 (“Manchester City F.C.”) to satirize the football club for poaching high-quality players with high prices.

鏝

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester City F.C.

• 獌 (“Manchester United”)
• 魚拉突／鱼拉突 (“Manchester United”)

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “镘”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: まん (man)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: こて (kote)

• (Tokyo) こて [kòté] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞te̞]

鏝(こて) • (kote) 

1. trowel
2. an iron used to flatten fabric or paper
3. curling irons

• 半田鏝(はんだごて) (handagote)

鏝 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

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