# 仗

| 仗 | U+4ED7, &#20183; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED7 |
| ← 他 [U+4ED6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 付 → [U+4ED8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

仗 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人十大 (OJK), four-corner 2520$_0$, composition ⿰亻丈)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 92, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 371
* Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 113, character 2
* Unihan data for U+4ED7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 丈 | *daŋʔ |
| 杖 | *daŋʔ |
| 仗 | *daŋʔ, *daŋs |

### Etymology

Derived from 杖 (OC *daŋʔ) "cane, staff", with suffix *-s → *-h → 去聲／去声 (qùshēng), attested in Zuozhuan as 杖 (zhàng) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): zhàng (zhang$^4$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄓㄤˋ
    (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): җон (žon, III)
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng$^6$ / zoeng$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tiǒng / tiōng / tiāng
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ziang$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhàng
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄤˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhàng
*** Wade–Giles: chang$^4$
*** Yale: jàng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janq
*** Palladius: чжан (čžan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
** (Dungan)
*** Cyrillic and Wiktionary: җон (žon, III)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁴⁴/
    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zoeng$^6$ / zoeng$^3$
*** Yale: jeuhng / jeung
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng$^6$ / dzoeng$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zêng$^6$ / zêng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sœːŋ²²/, /t͡sœːŋ³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiǒng
*** Tâi-lô: tiǒng
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiōng
*** Tâi-lô: tiōng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diong
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ²²/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāng
*** Tâi-lô: tiāng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diang
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaŋ²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiaŋ³³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ziang$^6$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiăng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siaŋ³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: drjangX, drjangH
Rime :
| Character | 仗 | 仗 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 直兩切 | 直亮切 |
| Baxter | drjangX | drjangH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖɨɐŋ$^X$/ | /ɖɨɐŋ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖiɐŋ$^X$/ | /ɖiɐŋ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiɑŋ$^X$/ | /ȡiɑŋ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖɨaŋ$^X$/ | /ɖɨaŋ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡiaŋ$^X$/ | /ȡiaŋ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡĭaŋ$^X$/ | /ȡĭaŋ$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȡʱi̯aŋ$^X$/ | /ȡʱi̯aŋ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhàng | zhàng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zoeng$^6$ | zoeng$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*daŋʔ/, /*daŋs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 仗 | 仗 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 16838 | 16839 |
| Phonetic component | 丈 | 丈 |
| Rime group | 陽 | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 丈 | 仗 |
| Old Chinese | /*daŋʔ/ | /*daŋs/ |

### Definitions

仗
* weaponry; weapons; arms
* to hold a weapon
* war; battle
    打仗 ― dǎzhàng ― to fight a battle; to go to war
* (obsolete) guard; escort
* to depend; to rely
       zhàng zhe zìjǐ de quánlì wéisuǒyùwéi [Pinyin]
       to rely on one's power to do whatever one wants

### Compounds

* 仙仗
* 仗劍 / 仗剑 (zhàngjiàn)
* 仗勢 / 仗势 (zhàngshì)
* 仗勢凌人
* 仗勢欺人 / 仗势欺人 (zhàngshìqīrén)
* 仗恃 (zhàngshì)
* 仗托
* 仗義 / 仗义 (zhàngyì)
* 仗義執言 / 仗义执言 (zhàngyìzhíyán)
* 仗義疏財 / 仗义疏财 (zhàngyìshūcái)
* 仗義直言 / 仗义直言
* 仗義輕財 / 仗义轻财
* 仗腰子
* 仗膽兒 / 仗胆儿
* 仗衛 / 仗卫
* 仗賴 / 仗赖
* 仗馬無聲 / 仗马无声
* 仰仗 (yǎngzhàng)
* 任賢仗能 / 任贤仗能
* 作仗
* 依仗 (yīzhàng)
* 依官仗勢 / 依官仗势
* 倚仗 (yǐzhàng)
* 倚官仗勢 / 倚官仗势
* 倚財仗勢 / 倚财仗势
* 儀仗 / 仪仗 (yízhàng)
* 儀仗隊 / 仪仗队 (yízhàngduì)
* 兵仗
* 刀仗
* 勝仗 / 胜仗 (shèngzhàng)
* 大陣仗 / 大阵仗 (dàzhènzhàng)
* 天仗
* 寒蟬仗馬 / 寒蝉仗马
* 對仗 / 对仗 (duìzhàng)
* 御仗 (yùzhàng)
* 慢仗
* 慷慨仗義 / 慷慨仗义
* 憑仗 / 凭仗 (píngzhàng)
* 打仗 (dǎzhàng)
* 打勝仗 / 打胜仗
* 打敗仗 / 打败仗
* 打水仗
* 打雪仗 (dǎxuězhàng)
* 擔仗 / 担仗
* 敗仗 / 败仗 (bàizhàng)
* 明火執仗 / 明火执仗
* 槍仗手 / 枪仗手
* 死仗 (sǐzhàng)
* 沒投仰仗 / 没投仰仗
* 沒頭仰仗 / 没头仰仗
* 炮仗 (pàozhang)
* 爆仗 (bàozhàng)
* 狗仗人勢 / 狗仗人势
* 狗仗官勢 / 狗仗官势
* 疏財仗義 / 疏财仗义 (shūcái zhàngyì)
* 硬仗 (yìngzhàng)
* 立仗馬 / 立仗马
* 筆仗 / 笔仗
* 籠仗 / 笼仗
* 細仗 / 细仗
* 衛仗 / 卫仗
* 袍仗
* 負氣仗義 / 负气仗义
* 贓仗 / 赃仗
* 車仗 / 车仗
* 軍仗 / 军仗
* 輕財仗義 / 轻财仗义
* 鎧仗 / 铠仗
* 開仗 / 开仗 (kāizhàng)
* 陣仗 / 阵仗 (zhènzhàng)

### References

* “仗”, 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: じょう (jō)
* Kan-on: しょう (shō)
* Kun: つえ (tsue, 仗)、つわもの (tsuwamono, 仗)、よる (yoru, 仗る)

#### Usage notes

This character is not used much in modern Japanese.

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 仗
* つえ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 仗 – see the following entry. :
| 【杖つえ】J | [noun] staff, stick, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand [noun] something one leans on, a support [noun] a cane used for corporal punishment [noun] a particularly shaped stirring stick used to make New Year's porridge [noun] the stem of a pear [noun] (historical) a traditional unit of length [noun] (historical) approximately 3 meters [noun] (historical) seven 尺 (shaku, traditional Japanese foot) and five 寸 (sun, traditional Japanese inch), or approximately 2.3 meters [noun] (historical) a traditional unit of area [noun] (historical) one-fifth of a 段 (tan, traditional Japanese paddy size, roughly half of an English acre), or around 237m² Alternative spellings 筇, 丈 |
(This term, 仗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 仗
* つわもの Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 仗 – see the following entry. :
| 【つわもの】 | [noun] (military) a war machine; a weapon [noun] military ration [noun] a brave and strong warrior [noun] a stubborn person Alternative spellings 兵, 強者 |
(This term, 仗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 3

* Kanji in this term
* 仗
* まわり Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* For pronunciation and definitions of 仗 – see the following entry: 回り
(The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: 回り.)

### Etymology 4

* Kanji in this term
* 仗
* じょう Hyōgai
* goon
From Middle Chinese 仗. Compare modern Mandarin 仗 (zhàng).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [d͡ʑo̞ː]

#### Affix

仗(じょう) • (jō)
* military strength
* reliable, dependable

##### Derived terms

* 仗旗(じょうき) (jōki, “in medieval times, a special imperial flag marking occasions of special dignity, such as the first day of a new emperor's reign”)
* 仗議(じょうぎ) (jōgi), 仗儀(じょうぎ) (jōgi, “in the Nara period, a kind of codified conference before the imperial court, whereby nobles below the rank of minister would discuss the business of government”)
* 仗座(じょうざ) (jōza, “the seats of the Imperial Guard; where nobles would sit to offer counsel to the court”)
* 仗身(じょうしん) (jōshin, “in the Nara period, the court-appointed bodyguard of officials of fifth or higher rank”)
* 仗術(じょうじゅつ) (jōjutsu, “a traditional Japanese martial art using a shortened staff: a kind of stick fighting”)
* 儀仗(ぎじょう) (gijō, “ornamental weapon for ceremonial usage”)

## Korean
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [t͡ɕa̠ŋ]
* Phonetic hangul: [장]

### Hanja

Wikisource 仗 (eum 장 (jang))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

仗: Hán Nôm readings: trượng, dượng
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#### References

* Nom Foundation