峠

峠 U+5CE0, 峠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CE0 ← 峟 [U+5CDF] CJK Unified Ideographs 峡 → [U+5CE1]

Translingual

Han character

峠 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山卜一卜 (UYMY), four-corner 2173₁, composition ⿰山𠧗)

1. mountain pass
2. crisis, climax

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 311, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8068
• Dae Jaweon: page 611, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 770, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5CE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		峠

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 峠 (tōge).

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 卡 (kǎ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎ, qiǎ (ka³, qia³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚˇ, ㄑㄧㄚˇ

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǎ
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa³
    • Yale: kǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kaa
    • Palladius: ка (ka)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciǎ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻia³
    • Yale: chyǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chea
    • Palladius: ця (cja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ä²¹⁴/

Definitions

峠

1. Used in Japanese place names.

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 山 (“mountain”) + 上 (“up; ascend”) + 下 (“down; descend”).

Compare 裃(かみしも) (kamishimo), 垰(たお) (tao).

Kanji

峠

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Kun: とうげ (tōge, 峠, Jōyō)^{←たうげ (tauge, 峠, historical)}
• Nanori: たわ (tawa)、たわとう (tawatō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
峠
とうげ Grade: S
kun'yomi

/tamuke/ → /tauɡe/ → /toːɡe/

Sound shift from 手向け (tamuke, “tribute to a person about to depart”). It is said that these offerings were "given" to them as they traveled into the afterlife, akin to a mountain. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) とーげ [tòógéꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [to̞ːɡe̞]

Noun

峠(とうげ) • (tōge) ^{←たうげ (tauge)?}

1. mountain pass, ridge
2. (figurative) crisis, climax

Derived terms

• 峠(とうげ)を越(こ)える (tōge o koeru, “cross a pass”)
• 峠(とうげ)を越(こ)す (tōge o kosu, “to finish the most difficult part; to be over the worst”, literally “cross over a pass”)
• 峠(とうげ)越(ご)え (tōge-goe, “crossing a mountain pass”)
• 峠蕗(トウゲブキ) (tōgebuki)
• 峠(とうげ)道(みち) (tōgemichi, “road over a mountain pass”)
• 碓(う)氷(すい)峠(とうげ) (Usui-tōge, “Usui Pass”)

Proverbs

• 洞(ほら)ヶ峠(とうげ)を決(き)め込(こ)む (Horagatōge o kimekomu, “to wait for a good opportunity”, literally “to wait and see at Horagatōge”)

Proper noun

峠(たうげ) • (Tauge) 

1. a surname

Proper noun

峠(とうげ) • (Tōge) ^{←たうげ (Tauge)?}

1. A place name.
2. a surname

Etymology 2

Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

峠(たお) or 峠(たおげ) or 峠(とおげ) or 峠(どうげさき) • (Tao or Taoge or Tōge or Dōgesaki) 

1. a surname

Korean

Hanja

峠 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.