盾

盾 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十月山 (HJBU), four-corner 7226₄, composition ⿸𠂆𥃭 or ⿸𣂑目)

• 循 楯

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 801, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23171
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2475, character 5
• Unihan data for U+76FE

Historical forms of the character 盾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) — a shield (in the oracle bone script). Note that under the 𠂆 is not 直 - one less stroke here.

“shield”

Compare Burmese လွှား (hlwa:, “oblong shield”) (Starostin). It is unclear whether Chepang [script needed] (dhəl) is related (Schuessler, 2007). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

“dong”

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Chinese 銅 (MC duwng, “copper”).

 

“guilder; gulden; rupiah”

Probably first referred to the two shilling coin, also known as the florin, which had four crowned cruciform shields with a rose in the centre. It was later used for the Dutch guilder, which replaced an older currency known as the florin. Since the guilder was used in Indonesia, when the rupiah replaced it, the Chinese name for the guilder continued to be used for the rupiah.

盾

1. (military) shield
2. shield-shaped object
3. (figurative) support; aid; assistance
4. dong (Vietnamese currency)
5. guilder; gulden (several currencies)
6. rupiah (Indonesian currency)

• “盾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “盾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 57.

• 楯

(Jōyō kanji)

1. shield, escutcheon

• Go-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)、どん (don)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)、とん (ton)
• Kun: たて (tate, 盾, Jōyō)

The nominalized form of the verb 立てる (tateru, “stand”).

盾(たて) • (tate) 

1. a weapon stood up or erected before one's body to block and protect from attacks; a shield

From Middle Chinese 盾 (MC zywinX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰun]
• Phonetic hangul: [순]

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

盾

Wikisource

盾 (eumhun 방패 순 (bangpae sun))

1. hanja form^? of 순 (“shield”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

盾: Hán Nôm readings: thuẫn

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