棒

棒 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木手大手 (DQKQ), four-corner 4595₃, composition ⿰木奉)

• 𠾴, 𥴇

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 532, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14929
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1222, character 9
• Unihan data for U+68D2

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• 棒

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).

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棒

1. stick; club; truncheon
2. to hit with a stick
3. (figurative) baton; responsibility; succession
4. (Mandarin, colloquial) hefty; strong
5. (Mandarin, colloquial) terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful

   這篇文章寫得多棒啊，背下來。 [MSC, trad.]
   这篇文章写得多棒啊，背下来。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè piān wénzhāng xiě de duō bàng a, bèi xiàlái. [Pinyin]

   How excellently written is this article! Learn it by heart.

• (Cantonese) (excellent): 正 (zeng3)

Others:

• → Thai: พลอง (plɔɔng)
• ⇒ Thai: กระบอง (grà-bɔɔng), ตะบอง (dtà-bɔɔng)

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. bar, staff, stick, pole, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand, (shepherd's) crook.
2. straight line.

• Go-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kun: つえ (tsue, 棒)^{←つゑ (tuwe, 棒, historical)}

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棒

Wikipedia ^ja

From Middle Chinese 棒 (MC baewngX). The goon pronunciation, so likely an earlier borrowing.

• (Tokyo) ぼー [bòó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [bo̞ː]

棒(ぼう) • (bō) ^{←ばう (bau)?}

1. a staff, measuring 6 shaku (about 1.8 meters), used in martial arts such as 棒術 (bōjutsu)
2. (by extension) stick-like or long, cylindrical item: pointer, pole, rod, etc.

   棒(ぼう)を持(も)つ

   bō o motsu

   to hold a pointer

   うまい棒(ぼう)

   Umaibō

   Umaibō (a cylinder-shaped snack food)

   棒(ぼう)のぼり

   bō-nobori

   pole climbing (found in elementary schools to train the strength of students)

3. (by extension) a straight line; bar
4. (by extension) state of being in a "straight line"; continuous
5. taut leg muscles due to fatigue (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
6. (Buddhism) staff used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism

棒 (eumhun 몽둥이 봉 (mongdung'i bong))

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棒: Hán Nôm readings: vổng, bọng, bộng, bổng, búng

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