幛

幛

幛 U+5E5B, 幛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E5B ← 幚 [U+5E5A] CJK Unified Ideographs 幜 → [U+5E5C]

Translingual

Han character

幛 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中月卜廿十 (LBYTJ), four-corner 4024₆, composition ⿰巾章)

1. scroll of silk or cloth

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 336, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9067
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 752, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5E5B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		幛

Glyph origin

Considered a 後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 章 (OC *kjaŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhàng (zhang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng³
• Min Nan (POJ): chiòng / chiàng / chiùⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhàng
    • Wade–Giles: chang⁴
    • Yale: jàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janq
    • Palladius: чжан (čžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zoeng³
    • Yale: jeung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃœːŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiòng
    • Tâi-lô: tsiòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioxng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɔŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàng
    • Tâi-lô: tsiàng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaxng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiùⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsiùnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cviux
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiũ¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiũ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiũ²¹/

Note:

• chiòng/chiàng - literary;
• chiùⁿ - vernacular.

Definitions

幛

1. a type of oblong banner or scroll carrying a message used at weddings, funerals, etc.

   • 我爸虛歲八旬，照本省禮俗，可以送紅幛，但也有送白幛的，上百張紅白「旗海」在帳篷裡，好像大馬戲班子紮營公演。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, trad.]
     我爸虚岁八旬，照本省礼俗，可以送红幛，但也有送白幛的，上百张红白“旗海”在帐篷里，好像大马戏班子扎营公演。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, simp.]

     From: 6 April 1996, Chuang Yu-An 莊裕安, Requiem for the Dead 為亡靈談奏, United Daily News 聯合報

     Wǒ bà xūsuì bā xún, zhào běn shěng lǐsú, kěyǐ sòng hóng zhàng, dàn yě yǒu sòng bái zhàng de, shàng bǎi zhāng hóng bái “qí hǎi” zài zhàngpéng lǐ, hǎoxiàng dà mǎxì bānzi zháyíng gōngyǎn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. to cover

   Synonym: 遮蔽 (zhēbì)

Compounds

喜幛

幛光

幛子 (zhàngzi)

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Japanese

Kanji

幛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: ぬの (nuno)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幛: Hán Nôm readings: trướng

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