犅
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Translingual
Han character
犅 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹手月廿山 (HQBTU), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜岡)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 702, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20056
- Dae Jaweon: page 1115, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1813, character 5
- Unihan data for U+7285
Chinese
| trad. | 犅 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 𰠫 | |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaːŋ) : semantic 牛 (“ox”) + phonetic 岡 (OC *klaːŋ).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gaŋ (“penis, male”) (STEDT).
Schuessler, (2007) minimally reconstructs OC *kâŋ from earlier *klaŋ and proposed OC word's cognacy to Mru klaŋ, Mizo tlaŋ (“male”), Karbi chè lóŋ (“buffalo”), and Tibetan གླང (glang, “ox”), the latter four from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *laŋ with animal prefix *s- or *k-; if so, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-laŋ (“penis, male, husband”) (STEDT).
Gong (1995) instead relates Tibetan གླང (glang, “ox”) to Old Chinese 象 (OC *ljaŋʔ) "elephant".
Zev Handel also notes 犅 (OC *klaːŋ)'s parallel etymology with its homophone 岡 (OC *klaːŋ) "ridge" (Mand. gāng) in the same phonetic series.