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

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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

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”).[1][2] 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

    Noun

    峠(とうげ) • (tōge) ←たうげ (tauge)?

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

    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

    References
    1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
    3. 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

    Hanja

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

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