丈

丈 (Kangxi radical 1, 一+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十大 (JK), four-corner 5000₀, composition ⿻𠂇㇏)

• 仗 𡉋 𡚹 𢗆 扙 杖 𤣸 粀 𧘓 𨥅 𠀋 㽴 吏 更
• 𭷹 𭶾 𮊨 𮩟 𭑢

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 76, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11
• Dae Jaweon: page 137, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 9, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4E08

Historical forms of the character 丈
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s01638 Transcribed ancient scripts L35087 L17509
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).

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 十 (“ten”) + 又 (“hand”) – ten chi (尺) is one zhang (丈).

"gentleman, older man, husband"

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ (“uncle, superior”) (Schuessler (2007), STEDT; compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part, rise, raise, top, summit”)). Cognate with 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) "upwards", Tibetan ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”), Burmese အရှင် (a.hrang, “master, lord”), etc.

"unit of measurement"

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan, compare Mizo ṭâng " kai (“to measure (v.), a measure (n.) from the tip of the middle finger from one side to a spot between the breast bone and the other side's armpit”) (Schuessler, 2007)

丈

1. A unit of measurement.
   1. The zhang, a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (尺)
   2. The mainland zhang, a unit of length standardized in 1984 as 3 ¹/₃ meters.

      Synonym: 市丈 (shìzhàng)

   3. The Taiwanese zhang, a unit of length standardized as 3 ¹/₃₃ meters, identical to the Japanese jō.
   4. The Hong Kong jeuhng, standardized as 3.71475 meters.
2. to survey (land); to measure
3. gentleman; man; husband

   丈夫  ―  zhàngfū  ―  husband

• 尺 (chǐ), 寸 (cùn), 分 (fēn)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kun: たけ (take, 丈, Jōyō); たき (taki, 丈); だけ (dake, 丈); はかる (hakaru, 丈る)
• Nanori: たけ (take); とも (tomo); ひろ (hiro); ます (masu)

• 𠀋

From Middle Chinese 丈 (MC drjangX).

• (Tokyo) じょ​ー [jóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[4]
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ː]

丈(じょう) • (jō) ^{←ぢやう (dyau)?}

1. jō, a traditional Japanese unit of length based on 10 shaku, standardized as equal to 3+¹⁄₃₃ meters.

⟨take₂⟩ → /takje/ → /take/

Cognate with 高 (taka, “height”), 高い (takai, “high”), and 長ける (takeru, “to be high”).

• (Tokyo) たけ​ [tàkéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[5][4]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ke̞]

丈(たけ) • (take) 

1. height
   • 970–999, Utsubo Monogatari, page Toshikage:

     言ひ教ふる事もなくておほし立つるに、年にもあはず、丈高く心賢し。

     His wife, a princess of the blood, bore him a son, who proved to be clever by nature, and grew up into a boy of superior mien and disposition.

• This term is often spelled in hiragana. The kanji spelling is rarely used.

丈(じょう) • (Jō) ^{←ぢやう (dyau)?}

1. a male given name

• はちじょう (hachijō)

• Kōno, Tama (c. 970–999) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1959, →ISBN.

丈 (eumhun 어른 장 (eoreun jang))

1. A unit of measurement equal to the Chinese zhang

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丈

丈: Hán Việt readings: trượng
丈: Nôm readings: trượng

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