棒

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

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

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

棒

1. stick; club; truncheon
2. to hit with a stick
3. (colloquial) terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful
4. (colloquial) hefty; strong

• (Cantonese) (excellent): 正 (zhèng)

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. pole, stick, staff, rod, cane
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, historical)}

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

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

棒 (hiragana ぼう, rōmaji bō, historical hiragana ばう)

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 • (bong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 봉
  • Name (hangeul): 몽둥이

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棒 (vổng, bọng, bộng, bổng, búng)

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