杖
Meanings
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- 1.a staff
- 2.a rod
- 3.cane
- 4.walking stick
- 5.to flog with a stick (old)
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Wiktionary
- 1.walking stick
- 2.staff; rod; cane; wand
- 3.flogging with a stick
- 4.to flog (a prisoner)
- 5.to support; to prop
- 6.to hold; to grasp
- 7.Classifier for segments of sugarcane.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *daŋʔ): semantic 木 + phonetic 丈 (OC *daŋʔ). Thought to be the same word as 丈 (OC *daŋʔ) "gentleman, older man, husband", i.e. "someone who walks with, or leans on, a staff"; though unlikely. According to Schuessler (2007), this is an areal word. Compare Mizo tiang (“staff, stick, crutch”), Old Khmer toŋ (“shaft, stock, shank”), -toṅa (“stock, stem, stick”), and Khmer ដង (dɑɑng, “pole, shaft, handle, yoke, body, trunk”). Benedict (1976) also compares this to Proto-Tai *de:ŋ ~ *tʰe:ŋ (“stick, bar”), Malay tiang (“pillar, post, pole”), Fijian ndia (“stick, handle”), and to reconstructed Proto-Austro-Tai *(n)ti(j)aŋ. A derivative, attested in Zuozhuan as 杖 (zhàng), is the verb 仗 (OC *daŋs) "to lean on", with suffix *-s → *-h → 去聲／去声 (qùshēng).
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