砮

砮 U+782E, 砮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-782E ← 砭 [U+782D] CJK Unified Ideographs 砯 → [U+782F]

Translingual

Han character

砮 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女水一口 (VEMR), four-corner 4760₁, composition ⿱奴石)

1. arrow tip

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 829, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24111
• Dae Jaweon: page 1243, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2425, character 17
• Unihan data for U+782E

Chinese

trad.		砮
simp. #		砮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
拿	*rnaː
拏	*rnaː
詉	*rnaː
蒘	*rnaː, *na
笯	*rnaː, *naː, *naːs
挐	*rnaː, *na
絮	*rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
呶	*rnaːw
怓	*rnaːw
帑	*n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
奴	*naː
砮	*naː, *naːʔ
駑	*naː
孥	*naː
努	*naːʔ
弩	*naːʔ
怒	*naːʔ, *naːs
袽	*na
帤	*na
女	*naʔ, *nas
籹	*naʔ
恕	*hnjas
如	*nja, *njas
茹	*nja, *njaʔ, *njas
洳	*nja, *njas
鴽	*nja
蕠	*nja
汝	*njaʔ
肗	*njaʔ

Etymology

Gernet (apud Ferlus, 1999) derives 弩 (OC *naːʔ) from this, yet the reverse is equally possible. For more see 弩.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǔ (nu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǔ
    • Wade–Giles: nu³
    • Yale: nǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuu
    • Palladius: ну (nu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: nou⁵
    • Yale: nóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nó͘
    • Tâi-lô: nóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nor
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nɔ̃⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: nu, nuX

Rime
Character	砮	砮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	乃都切	奴古切
Baxter	nu	nuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nuo/	/nuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/nuo/	/nuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/no/	/noX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɔ/	/nɔX/
Li Rong	/no/	/noX/
Wang Li	/nu/	/nuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/nuo/	/nuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nú	nǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nou4	nou5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*naː/, /*naːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	砮	砮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9601	9609
Phonetic component	女	女
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	奴	怒
Old Chinese	/*naː/	/*naːʔ/

Definitions

砮

1. (literary) flint
2. (literary, metonymic) stone arrowhead

Compounds

• 碧砮

Japanese

Kanji

砮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ど (do)、ぬ (nu)
• Kun: やじり (yajiri)