# 罠

| 罠 | U+7F60, &#32608; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F60 |
| ← 罟 [U+7F5F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 罡 → [U+7F61] |

## Translingual
### Han character

罠 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田中口女心 (WLRVP), four-corner 6074$_7$, composition ⿱罒民)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 947, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28249
* Dae Jaweon: page 1388, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2916, character 15
* Unihan data for U+7F60

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 眠 | *miːn |
| 民 | *min |
| 泯 | *min, *minʔ |
| 怋 | *min, *mɯːn |
| 岷 | *mrin |
| 珉 | *mrin |
| 罠 | *mrin |
| 笢 | *mrin, *minʔ |
| 鈱 | *mrin |
| 抿 | *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ |
| 刡 | *minʔ |
| 敃 | *mrinʔ |
| 愍 | *mrinʔ |
| 暋 | *mrinʔ |
| 蟁 | *mɯn |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrin): semantic 罒 (“net”) + phonetic 民 (OC *min).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mín (min$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): man$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mín
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mín
*** Wade–Giles: min$^2$
*** Yale: mín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
*** Palladius: минь (minʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /min³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: man$^4$
*** Yale: màhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: man$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: men$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐn²¹/
* Middle Chinese: min
Rime :
| Character | 罠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (44) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 武巾切 |
| Baxter | min |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠiɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mien/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mjin/ |
| Li Rong | /mjĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /mǐĕn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /mi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mín |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | man$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mrin/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 罠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9135 |
| Phonetic component | 民 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 珉 |
| Old Chinese | /*mrin/ |

### Definitions

罠
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) animal trap; snare
* (historical dictionaries only) Alternative form of 緡 / 缗 (mín, “fishing line”)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: みん (min)
* Kan-on: びん (bin)
* Kun: わな (wana, 罠)、あみ (ami, 罠)

#### Compounds

* 穴罠: a trap hole
* 罠(わな)猟(りょう) (wanaryō): trapping, a hunting trap
* 罠(わな)猟(りょう)師(し) (wana ryōshi): a trapper

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 罠
* わな Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) わな [wáꜜnà] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [β̞a̠na̠]

#### Noun

罠(わな) • (wana)
* a trap, a snare
* a trick, a prank

##### Derived terms

* 罠者: trapper
* 罠師: trap master; a Master Trapper

##### Idioms

* 罠拵(わなこしら)えて首突(くびつ)っ込(こ)む (wana koshiraete kubi tsukkomu): “set a trap and get (your own) head stuck” → to set a trap but catch yourself: hoist by one's own petard

### Etymology 2

Ateji used to spell わ (wa) + な (na), both sentence-final emphatic particles. Usage developed on online message boards.

#### Pronunciation

Equivalent to 罠 above, or to the particles わ+な.

#### Particle

罠(わな) • (wana)
* (sentence-final) Equivalent to わ (wa, “emphatic particle”) + な (na, “emotive/emphatic particle”)
    そうだ罠(わな)
       sō da wana
       That's right, for real.

### See also

* 悪(わる)ふざけ (warufuzake): a practical joke, a prank
* 計(けい)略(りゃく) (keiryaku): a stratagem, ruse
* 策(さく)略(りゃく) (sakuryaku): a trick

### References

* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

罠 (eum 민 (min))
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