鍬

See also: 锹
鍬 U+936C, 鍬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-936C
← 鍫
[U+936B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鍭 →
[U+936D]

Translingual

Han character

鍬 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹木火 (CHDF), four-corner 89180, composition ⿰釒秋)

  1. shovel

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1315, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4231, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+936C

Chinese
trad. 鍬
simp. 锹
2nd round simp. 𫓱
alternative forms
 
鍫／锹
喿
鐰／𲈞
銚／铫
橾
鍫／锹
喿
鐰／𲈞
銚／铫
橾
𣂁

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (秋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍫 *sʰew
篍 *sʰiw, *sʰiws, *sʰɯw
愀 *sʰiwʔ, *zɯwʔ
湫 *ʔsliwʔ, *ʔsɯw, *sʰɯw, *zɯwʔ
揪 *ʔsɯw
揫 *ʔsɯw
啾 *ʔsɯw
鬏 *ʔsɯw
秋 *sʰɯw
鰍 *sʰɯw
楸 *sʰɯw
秌 *sʰɯw
鞦 *sʰɯw
鶖 *sʰɯw
萩 *sʰɯw
甃 *ʔsrɯws
醔 *sʰrɯw
愁 *zrɯw
僽 *zrɯws

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 秋 (OC *sʰɯw) – a metal shovel.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鍬

  1. shovel; spade

Compounds
  • 圓鍬／圆锹
  • 鐵鍬／铁锹 (tiěqiāo)
  • 點鋼鍬／点钢锹

Japanese

Kanji
鍬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. hoe

Readings

Compounds
  • 豊(とよ)鍬入(すきいり)姫(ひめの)命(みこと) (Toyosukiirihime no Mikoto)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
鍬
くわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/kupa/ → /kufa/ → /kuwa/

From Old Japanese.

Ultimate derivation unknown. Possibly derived from 食う (kuu, “to eat up; to bite into”), which has a 未然形 (mizenkei, “incomplete form”) of kuwa.

Pronunciation

Noun

鍬(くわ) • (kuwa) ←くは (kufa)?

  1. a hoe (agricultural tool)
    • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 61:
      都芸泥布(つぎねふ)夜麻志呂売能(やましろめの)許(こ)久波(くは)母知(もち)宇知斯淤富泥(うちしおほね)泥士漏能(ねじろの)斯漏多陀牟岐(しろただむき)麻迦受祁婆許曽(まかずけばこそ)斯良受登母伊波米(しらずともいはめ) [Man'yōgana]
      つぎねふ山代(やましろ)女(め)の木(こ)鍬(くわ)持(も)ち打(う)ちし大(おほ)根(ね)根(ね)白(じろ)の白(しろ)腕(ただむき)枕(ま)かずけばこそ知(し)らずとも言(い)はめ [Modern spelling]
      tsuginefu Yamashiro-me no kokuwa mochi uchishi ofone nejiro no shiro-tadamuki makazukeba koso shirazu to mo iwame
      (please add an English translation of this example)

Usage notes

In compounds, this term may refer more broadly to similarly shaped tools for working the earth, such as a plough or a harrow.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 鍬(くわ)入(い)れ (kuwa-ire)
  • 鍬弄(くわいじ)り (kuwaijiri)
  • 鍬形(くわがた) (kuwagata)
  • 鍬下(くわした) (kuwashita)
  • 御(お)鍬(くわ)立(た)て (o-kuwatate)
  • 鍬(くわ)取(と)り (kuwatori)
  • 鍬初(くわはじ)め (kuwa-hajime)
  • 鍬平(くわびら) (kuwabira)
  • 鍬(くわ)箒(ぼうき) (kuwabōki)
  • 鍬焼(くわやき), 鍬(くわ)焼(や)き (kuwayaki)
  • 鐙(あぶみ)鍬(ぐわ) (abumiguwa)
  • 鋳(い)鍬(ぐわ) (iguwa)
  • 牛鍬(うしぐわ) (ushiguwa, “oxen plough”)
  • 馬鍬(うまぐわ) (umaguwa)
  • 金鍬(かなぐわ) (kanaguwa)
  • 河内(かわち)鍬(ぐわ) (Kawachi-guwa)
  • 久六(きゅうろく)鍬(ぐわ) (kyūroku-guwa), 久六(くろく)鍬(ぐわ) (kuroku-guwa)
  • 黒鍬(くろくわ) (kuro kuwa)
  • 格子(こうし)鍬(ぐわ) (kōshi-guwa)
  • 木(こ)鍬(くわ) (kokuwa)
  • 作鍬(さくぐわ) (sakuguwa)
  • 鋤鍬(すきくわ) (sukikuwa)
  • 唐鍬(とうぐわ) (tōguwa), 唐鍬(とうが) (tōga)
  • 備中(びっちゅう)鍬(ぐわ) (Bitchū-guwa)
  • 踏(ふ)み鍬(ぐわ) (fumiguwa)
  • 馬(ま)鍬(ぐわ) (maguwa), 馬鍬(まんぐわ) (manguwa), 馬鍬(まんが) (manga, “harrow”)
  • 股鍬(またぐわ) (mataguwa)
  • 斎(ゆ)鍬(くわ) (yukuwa)

Idioms
  • 鍬(くわ)を入(い)れる (kuwa o ireru)
  • 鍬(くわ)を抜(ぬ)かす (kuwa o nukasu)

Proverbs
  • 縁(えん)の下(した)の鍬使(くわづか)い (en no shita no kuwa-zukai)

See also

Proper noun

鍬(くわ) • (Kuwa) ←くは (kufa)?

  1. a surname

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean
鍬

Hanja

鍬 (eum 초 (cho))

  1. (가래 초): a spade, shovel, ploughshare

Synonyms

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

鍬: Hán Nôm readings: thâu

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