杖

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

cane

HSK 7

Objects →Tools →Implements

zhàng

ジョウ

つえ

장

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 丈 represents the sound.

Components

木 tree+ 丈 100 Chinese Inches =

杖 cane

木 Meaning component

mù tree

丈 Phonetic component

zhàng 100 Chinese Inches

unit of length equal 3.3 meters

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

杖

Regular

Modern

Chinese

杖 [zhàng]

a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)

Japanese

杖つえ同音

noun cane; walking stick; staff; wand

杖じょう同音

noun historical public caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

杖は彼に何の役にも立たなかった。

The stick didn't help him any.

Japanese Names

杖つえさき

Tsuesaki surname

CHINESE WORDS (21)

拐杖 [guǎizhàng] #8,597

crutches

手杖 [shǒuzhàng] #12,810

cane

魔杖 [mózhàng] #14,804

magic wand

权杖 [quánzhàng] #26,633

scepter

权杖 [quánzhàng] #26,633

scepter

擀面杖 [gǎnmiànzhàng] #38,780

rolling pin

擀面杖 [gǎnmiànzhàng] #38,780

rolling pin

禅杖 [chánzhàng] #42,484

the staff of a Buddhist monk

禅杖 [chánzhàng] #42,484

the staff of a Buddhist monk

杖头木偶 [zhàngtóumù'ǒu] #66,881

zhangtou wooden rod puppetry

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JAPANESE WORDS (41)

頬杖をつく [ほおづえをつく] #18,800

to rest one's chin in one's hands

頬杖 [ほおづえ] #22,865

resting one's chin in one's hands

錫杖 [しゃくじょう] #30,842

khakkhara (staff topped with metal rings traditionally carried by monks)

松葉杖 [まつばづえ] #35,042

crutch

魔法の杖 [まほうのつえ] #48,551

white cane (for the blind or visually impaired)

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KOREAN WORDS (1)

곤장

gonjang