峠

峠 U+5CE0, 峠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CE0
← 峟
[U+5CDF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 峡 →
[U+5CE1]

Translingual

Han character

峠 (radical 46, 山+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山卜一卜 (UYMY), four-corner 21731, composition ⿰山𠧗)

  1. mountain pass
  2. crisis, climax

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 311, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8068
  • Dae Jaweon: page 611, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 770, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5CE0

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 峠 – see 卡 (“to wedge; to get stuck; to be jammed; to become tightly wedged; etc.”).
(This character, 峠, is a variant form of 卡.)

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 山 (“mountain”) + 上 (“up; ascend”) + 下 (“down; descend”).

Compare 裃 (かみしも) (kamishimo), 垰 (たお) (tao).

Kanji
峠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings
  • Kun: とうげ (tōge, 峠, Jōyō)←たうげ (tauge, historical)
  • Nanori: たわ (tawa); たわとう (tawatō)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
峠
とうげ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/tamuke/ → /tauɡe/ → /toːɡe/

Sound shift from 手向け (tamuke, “tribute to a person about to depart”).[1][2] It is said that these offerings were "given" to them as they traveled into the afterlife, akin to a mountain. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

峠 (hiragana とうげ, rōmaji tōge, historical hiragana たうげ)

  1. mountain pass, ridge
  2. (figuratively) crisis, climax
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 峠 (とうげ)を越 (こ)える (tōge o koeru, “cross a pass”)
  • 峠 (とうげ)を越 (こ)す (tōge o kosu, “to finish the most difficult part; to be over the worst”, literally “cross over a pass”)
  • 峠 (とうげ)越 (ご)え (tōge-goe, “crossing a mountain pass”)
  • 峠 (とうげ)道 (みち) (tōgemichi, “road over a mountain pass”)
  • 碓 (う)氷 (すい)峠 (とうげ) (Usui-tōge, “Usui Pass”)
Proverbs
  • 洞 (ほら)ヶ峠 (とうげ)を決 (き)め込 (こ)む (Horagatōge o kimekomu, “to wait for a good opportunity”, literally “to wait and see at Horagatōge”)

Proper noun

峠 (hiragana たうげ, rōmaji Tauge)

  1. A surname​.

峠 (hiragana とうげ, rōmaji Tōge, historical hiragana たうげ)

  1. A place name.
  2. A surname​.

Etymology 2

Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

峠 (hiragana たお, rōmaji Tao)

  1. A surname​.

峠 (hiragana たおげ, rōmaji Taoge)

  1. A surname​.

峠 (hiragana とおげ, rōmaji Tōge)

  1. A surname​.

峠 (hiragana どうげさき, rōmaji Dōgesaki)

  1. A surname​.

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

峠 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang)

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