箱 U+7BB1, 箱 ← 箰[U+7BB0] CJK Unified Ideographs 箲 →[U+7BB2]

(Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 竹木月山 (HDBU), four-corner 88963, composition ⿱𥫗相)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 890, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2989, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7BB1

trad. simp. #

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slaŋ): semantic 𥫗 (“bamboo”) + phonetic (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) – a bamboo box.

  1. (large) box; chest; trunk 拎住一大嘢 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]ling1 zyu6 jat1 daai6 soeng1 je5 [Jyutping]carrying a great box of things
  2. box-shaped thing
  3. Classifier for boxes or chests.
  4. alternative form of / (xiāng, “side room”)
  • (box):
  • 匣 (xiá), 盒 (): (small) box
  • “箱”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[5], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. box
  • Go-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō)←しやう (syau, historical)
  • Kun: はこ (hako, , Jōyō)

Kanji in this term 箱 はこGrade: 3 kun’yomi Alternative spellings 函筥匣筐篋

/pako/ → /fako/ → /hako/

From Old Japanese pako. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[1] In turn, from Proto-Japonic *pako.

This term originally referred to a kind of wicker basket or box introduced from continental Asia, and the word is thought to be a borrowing from, or cognate with, a predecessor form of modern Korean 바구니 (baguni, “basket”).[2][3] Compare Middle Korean 바고니〮 (pàkwòní).

  • (Tokyo) はこ [hàkó] (Heiban – [0])[4][5][6]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ko̞]
  • (Kyōto, Ōsaka) はこ (Kōki – [0])

箱(はこ) • (hako)

  1. [from 720] a box: a container with a lid 父(ちち)が柿(かき)の一(ひと)箱(はこ)を送(おく)ってくれた。Chichi ga kaki no hitohako o okutte kureta.My father sent me a box of persimmons.
  2. [from 1120] (archaic) a chamber pot for feces; (by extension) feces
  3. [from 1771] (archaic) a shamisen case; (by extension) a shamisen; (by extension) a man or other geisha who accompanies a geisha and carries their shamisen case
  4. (slang) small ライブハウス (raibu hausu, “music venue”)
  5. (Internet slang) Xbox 箱(はこ)コンhakokonXbox controller 箱(はこ)信者(しんじゃ)hako shinjaXbox fanboy/fangirl
  • ボックス (bokkusu)
  • → Amis: hako
  • → Sakizaya: haku

From Middle Chinese 箱 (MC sjang). Recorded as Middle Korean 샤ᇰ (syang) (Yale: syang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

(eumhun 상자 상 (sangja sang))

  1. hanja form? of (“box”)
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [6]

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  • Kun: はく (haku, )

Kanji in this term 箱 はくGrade: 3 kun’yomi

Attested in the Liúqiú guăn yìyŭ (琉球館譯語), 1469-1470, as 法个 (fako).[1]

In turn, from Proto-Ryukyuan *pako, from Proto-Japonic *pako.

Cognate with Japanese (hako).

  • (Shuri) は​く [háꜜkù] (Kakō – [1])[2]
  • IPA(key): [haku]

箱(はく) (haku)

  1. box

箱(はく) (-haku)

  1. used to count boxes 一箱(ちゅはく)、二箱(たはく)chuhaku, tahakuone box, two boxes

箱: Hán Nôm readings: sương, tương, rương

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