杖

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Thought to be the same word as "gentleman, older man, husband", i.e. "someone who walks with, or leans on, a staff"; though unlikely.

According to, this is an areal word. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, and 🇨🇬. also compares this to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and to reconstructed *(n)ti(j)aŋ.

A derivative, attested in as, is the verb  "to lean on", with suffix *-s → *-h →.

Definitions

 * 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

Etymology 1
→ →  →  →

From. Found in the , completed some time after 759 CE.

Noun

 * 1) staff, stick, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand
 * 2) something one leans on, a support
 * 3) a cane used for corporal punishment
 * 4) a particularly shaped stirring stick used to make New Year's porridge
 * 5) the stem of a pear
 * 6)  a traditional unit of length
 * 7)  approximately 3 meters
 * 8)  seven  and five, or approximately 2.3 meters
 * 9)  a traditional unit of area
 * 10)  one-fifth of a, or around 237m²
 * 1)  seven  and five, or approximately 2.3 meters
 * 2)  a traditional unit of area
 * 3)  one-fifth of a, or around 237m²

Usage notes
The Japanese term tsue can refer generally to a stick or staff of various lengths, as expressed by the range of English meanings apparent in the senses above.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) a jo: a fighting staff, a little over 4  long, shorter than a
 * 2)  under the ancient  system, caning as a form of corporal punishment
 * 3)  a traditional unit of area: one-fifth of a, or around 237m²

Coordinate terms

 * : a bo staff

Compounds

 * : a khakkhara, a Buddhist monk's "sounding staff"
 * : a traditional Japanese martial art using a shortened staff
 * : the techniques of jōdō, a traditional Japanese martial art using a shortened staff