Chinese

棒

bàng
stick; club; truncheon
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 5
  • TOCFL 3
  • radical 木
  • 12 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *broːŋʔ): semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 奉 (OC *boŋʔ) – a wooden club.

; “terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful”

: The semantics may have developed as “stick” > “hard” > “excellent”; compare dialectal Mandarin 槓／杠 (gàng) (Yang, 2012).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese木 “tree; woody plant”
  • soundChinese奉 “to offer (tribute)”
    • soundChinese丰 “lush, luxuriant, flourishing”
    • meaningChinese廾 “both hands”

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