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See also: 寶

Stroke order

宝 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一土戈 (JMGI), four-corner 30103, composition ⿱宀玉)

• 𡝬, 𣷂, 𬃏, 𮎓, 𨉗, 𫒭, 𬝄, 𮦚, 𡬏
• 寶 (Traditional form of 宝)
• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 284, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7122
• Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5B9D

Simplified from 寶 (⿱珤貝 → 玉). Officially adopted as the simplified form of 寶 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

宝

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寶)

1. precious objects
2. worldly goods
3. valuable possessions

• Go-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: たから (takara, 宝, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *takara.

Samuel Martin analyzes this as a compound of 高 (taka-, “high”) + 等 (-ra, pluralizing suffix).[2] However, this is semantically problematic, as such a compound would ordinarily refer to "the heights" as a location, and there is no clear means of deriving the sense of "treasure" from the proposed component parts.

Some sources derive this as a compound of 田 (ta, “paddy field”) +‎ から (kara, “from”), literally “from the paddy fields”, from the way people value thriving paddy fields as a unique kind of treasure.[3] However, the sense of "from" for から (kara) does not appear until roughly the Heian period,[4] more recent than the first appearance of takara, making this a folk etymology.

• (Tokyo) たから [tàkáráꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[5][6][7]
• IPA(key): [ta̠ka̠ɾa̠]

宝(たから) • (takara)

1. [from 759] treasure

2. ^ “宝・財・貨”, in 日本国語大辞典‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

3. ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN

4. ^ 宝は田から～私たちの原点～ | 宝酒造株式会社 - Treasure is from the rice fields -Our Beginning- | Takara Shuzo (In Japanese)

5. ^ “から”, in 日本国語大辞典‎[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

6. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

7. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

8. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

宝 • (bo) (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune–Reischauer po)

1. jewel

宝: Hán Nôm readings: bảo, báu, bửu

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