綱

See also: 纲
綱 U+7DB1, 綱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DB1
← 綰
[U+7DB0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 網 →
[U+7DB2]

Translingual

Han character

綱 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月廿山 (VFBTU), four-corner 27920, composition ⿰糹岡)

Derived characters
  • 𮒔

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 927, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27576
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3414, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7DB1

Chinese
trad. 綱
simp. 纲
alternative forms 㭃

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (岡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
岡 *klaːŋ
崗 *klaːŋ
剛 *klaːŋ
掆 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
鋼 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
綱 *klaːŋ
犅 *klaːŋ
堈 *klaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaːŋ) : semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 岡 (OC *klaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 綱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古郎切
Baxter kang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 gong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 綱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˁaŋ/
English guiding rope of net

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 綱
Reading # 1/1
No. 3716
Phonetic
component		 岡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 岡
Old
Chinese		 /*klaːŋ/

Definitions

綱

  1. guiding principle
  2. essential part, key part
  3. program, outline
  4. (taxonomy) class
  5. (archaic) headrope, main rope of a fishing net

Compounds

See also

Japanese

Kanji
綱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. rope, cable
  2. genus, class

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
綱
つな
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *tuna.

First attested in the Harima Fudoki of 715 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

綱(つな) • (tsuna) 

  1. rope
  2. tsuna; ceremonial sumo belt
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
綱
こう
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 綱 (MC kang). Compare Korean 강 (gang).

Pronunciation

Noun

綱(こう) • (kō) ←かう (kau)?

  1. (taxonomy) class
Coordinate terms

References
  1. “綱”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →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

綱 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Okinawan

Kanji
綱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *tuna, from Proto-Japonic *tuna. Cognate with Japanese 綱 (つな, tsuna).

Noun

綱(ちな) (china) 

  1. rope

Vietnamese

Han character

綱: Hán Nôm readings: cương, cáng

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