爯

See also: 尔

爯 U+722F, 爯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-722F ← 爮 [U+722E] CJK Unified Ideographs 爰 → [U+7230]

Translingual

Han character

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

1. balance

Derived characters

• 偁, 㛵, 𪫁, 𢜻, 𫕋, 𣉁, 𬃣, 𤌁, 𥈦, 𰨋, 稱(称), 𧽃, 𩔋, 𣩖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 689, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2032, character 5
• Unihan data for U+722F

Chinese

Glyph origin

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
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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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 爪 (“hand”) + 冉 (“fish”) – a hand holding a fish.

Definitions

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

Japanese

Kanji

爯

(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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