鏃

See also: 镞

鏃 U+93C3, 鏃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93C3 ← 鏂 [U+93C2] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏄 → [U+93C4]

Translingual

Han character

鏃 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金卜尸大 (CYSK), four-corner 8813₄, composition ⿰釒族)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1319, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40772
• Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4251, character 5
• Unihan data for U+93C3

Chinese

trad.		鏃
simp.		镞

Wikipedia has an article on:

• 鏃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔟	*sʰoːɡs, *sʰoːɡ
嗾	*sʰoːɡs, *soːʔ, *soːɡs
鷟	*zroːɡ
鏃	*ʔsoːɡ
瘯	*sʰoːɡ
簇	*sʰoːɡ
族	*zoːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsoːɡ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 族 (OC *zoːɡ).

Etymology

Compare འཛུགས ('dzugs, “to insert; to plant”) (Sagart, 2017d; Hill, 2019), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-(d)z(j)u(ː)k (“to pierce; to plant; to erect”).

Sagart (2017) also compares it to Jingpho achyo (“to stab”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zú, cù (zu², cu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ, ㄘㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶ / zuk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chok / cho̍k

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zú
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zú
    • Wade–Giles: tsu²
    • Yale: dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
    • Palladius: цзу (czu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu⁴
    • Yale: tsù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
    • Palladius: цу (cu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zuk⁶ / zuk¹
    • Yale: juhk / jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹ / dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug⁶ / zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚²/, /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chok
    • Tâi-lô: tsok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zog
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tso̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zok
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔk̚⁴/

---

• Middle Chinese: tsuwk

Rime
Character	鏃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	作木切
Baxter	tsuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡suk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡suk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡suk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡suk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡suk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡suk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsoːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鏃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zú
Middle Chinese	‹ tsuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁok/
English	arrowhead
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	鏃
Reading #	1/1
No.	17976
Phonetic component	族
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鏃
Old Chinese	/*ʔsoːɡ/

Definitions

鏃

1. (literary) arrowhead; barb

   • 射而不能中，與無矢者同實。中而不能入，與無鏃者同實。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     射而不能中，与无矢者同实。中而不能入，与无镞者同实。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Guanzi, 5^th century BCE to 220 CE

     Shè ér bùnéng zhòng, yǔ wú shǐ zhě tóng shí. Zhòng ér bùnéng rù, yǔ wú zú zhě tóng shí. [Pinyin]

     If the archers shoot but are not able to hit their targets, it is the same as being without arrows. If they hit the mark but cannot pierce it, it is the same as having arrows without heads.

2. (literary) sharp
3. (literary) swift; quick

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 箭頭 (“arrowhead”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鏃
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		箭頭, 箭鏃
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	箭頭兒
	Taiwan	箭頭
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	箭頭
Cantonese	Guangzhou	箭嘴
Jin	Taiyuan	箭頭
Southern Min	Xiamen	箭頭
Puxian Min	Putian	箭支尾
	Xianyou	箭支尾

Compounds

• 箭鏃 / 箭镞
• 飛鏃 / 飞镞

References

• “鏃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 鏃

鏃

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku)
• Kan-on: そく (soku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぞく (zoku)
• Kun: やじり (yajiri, 鏃)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鏃
やじり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
矢尻

Noun

鏃(やじり) • (yajiri) 

1. arrowhead

   Synonym: 矢の根 (ya no ne)

References

• “^▲鏃”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

鏃 • (jok) (hangeul 족, revised jok, McCune–Reischauer chok, Yale cok)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.