椉

椉

See also: 乘 and 乗

椉 U+6909, 椉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6909 ← 椈 [U+6908] CJK Unified Ideographs 椊 → [U+690A]

Translingual

Han character

椉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓手木 (YNQD), four-corner 0090₄, composition ⿱亠桀)

Derived characters

• 𣽘, 𩦆, 𠟇

Related characters

• 乘 (Orthodox form in modern Chinese)
• 乗 (Japanese shinjitai of 乘)

References

• KangXi: page 536, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15016
• Dae Jaweon: page 923, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1237, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6909

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
乘	*ɦljɯŋ, *ɦljɯŋs
溗	*ɦljɯŋ
塖	*ɦljɯŋ
騬	*ɦljɯŋ
椉	*ɦljɯŋ
剩	*ɦljɯŋs
嵊	*ɦljɯŋs

Pictogram (象形) : 亠 + 舛 (“feet”) + 木 (“tree”) – a person climbing a tree.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 椉 – see 乘 (“to ascend; to go up; to drive; etc.”). (This character, 椉, is a variant form of 乘.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00037-006#26

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Japanese

Kanji

椉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 乘.

Readings

• On (unclassified): じょう (jō)
• Kun: のおる (nōru); のおせる (nōseru)

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 169360