爯

See also: 尔

爯	U+722F, 爯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-722F

← 爮
[U+722E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

爰 →
[U+7230]

Translingual

Etymology

Hand (爪, 又) holding a scale.

Historical forms of the character 爯

Shang

Western Zhou

Warring States

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Bronze inscriptions

Oracle bone script

Bronze inscriptions

Chu Slip and silk script

Qin slip script

Small seal script

**Bronze inscriptions**
	b05816	b05817	b05818

**Small seal script**
s02856

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (爯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
稱	tʰjɯŋ, tʰjɯŋs
爯	*tʰjɯŋ
偁	*tʰjɯŋ

Han character

爯 (radical 87, 爪+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月土月 (BGB), composition ⿱爫冉)

balance

Derived characters

稱 (称)

References

KangXi: page 689, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19671

Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 7

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2032, character 5

Unihan data for U+722F

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 爯 – see 稱 (“to weigh; to call; to name; etc.”). (This character, 爯, is an ancient form of 稱.)

Japanese

Kanji

爯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): しょう (shō)

Kun: となへ (tonahe), あげる (ageru)

Korean

Hanja

爯 • (ching) (hangeul 칭, revised ching, McCune–Reischauer ch'ing)

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