# 鏃

| 鏃 | U+93C3, &#37827; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93C3 |
| ← 鏂 [U+93C2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鏄 → [U+93C4] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鏃 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金卜尸大 (CYSK), four-corner 8813$_4$, composition ⿰釒族)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1319, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40772
* Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4251, character 5
* Unihan data for U+93C3

## Chinese

* 鏃

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 蔟 | *sʰoːɡs, *sʰoːɡ |
| 嗾 | *sʰoːɡs, *soːʔ, *soːɡs |
| 鷟 | *zroːɡ |
| 鏃 | *ʔsoːɡ |
| 瘯 | *sʰoːɡ |
| 簇 | *sʰoːɡ |
| 族 | *zoːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsoːɡ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 族 (OC *zoːɡ).

### Etymology

Compare འཛུགས ('dzugs, “to insert; to plant”) (Sagart, 2017d; Hill, 2019), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-(d)z(j)u(ː)k (“to pierce; to plant; to erect”).
Sagart (2017) also compares it to Jingpho achyo (“to stab”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zú, cù (zu$^2$, cu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ, ㄘㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk$^6$ / zuk$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chok / cho̍k
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zú
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zú
*** Wade–Giles: tsu$^2$
*** Yale: dzú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
*** Palladius: цзу (czu)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡su³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cù
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cù
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻu$^4$
*** Yale: tsù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
*** Palladius: цу (cu)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zuk$^6$ / zuk$^1$
*** Yale: juhk / jūk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk$^9$ / dzuk$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zug$^6$ / zug$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʊk̚²/, /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chok
*** Tâi-lô: tsok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zog
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔk̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔk̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho̍k
*** Tâi-lô: tso̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zok
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔk̚⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsuwk
Rime :
| Character | 鏃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (3) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 作木切 |
| Baxter | tsuwk |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡səwk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡suk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zuk$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤok/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsoːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鏃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsuwk › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts]ˁok/ |
| English | arrowhead |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鏃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17976 |
| Phonetic component | 族 |
| Rime group | 屋 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鏃 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsoːɡ/ |

### Definitions

鏃
* (literary) arrowhead; barb
    From: Guanzi, 5th century BCE to 220 CE
    Shè ér bùnéng zhòng, yǔ wú shǐ zhě tóng shí. Zhòng ér bùnéng rù, yǔ wú zú zhě tóng shí. [Pinyin]
    If the archers shoot but are not able to hit their targets, it is the same as being without arrows. If they hit the mark but cannot pierce it, it is the same as having arrows without heads.
* (literary) sharp
* (literary) swift; quick

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 鏃 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 箭頭, 箭鏃 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 箭頭兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 箭頭 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 箭頭 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 箭嘴 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 箭頭 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 箭頭 |

### Compounds

* 箭鏃 / 箭镞
* 飛鏃 / 飞镞

### References

* “鏃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: そく (soku)
* Kan-on: そく (soku)
* Kan’yō-on: ぞく (zoku)
* Kun: やじり (yajiri, 鏃)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 鏃
* やじり Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 矢尻

### Noun

鏃(やじり) • (yajiri)
* arrowhead
    Synonym: 矢の根 (ya no ne)

## Korean
### Hanja

鏃 • (jok) (hangeul 족, revised jok, McCune–Reischauer chok, Yale cok)
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