爪

Stroke order

• 爫 – when used as a top radical

 

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Radical 87 爪

爪 (Kangxi radical 87, 爪+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹中人 (HLO), four-corner 7223₀, composition ⿸𠂆⿰丨乀)

1. Kangxi radical #87, ⽖.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/爪
• 𫩜, 𢁬, 抓, 沠, 𤜶, 枛, 𤣺, 𥄄, 𮄨, 𧘷, 䖣, 𧠘, 𧦐, 䝖, 𬦦, 𮠜, 釽(𬬲), 𤔗, 𩨢, 𪗢
• 𦧍, 𧠙, 坕, 𦥝, 𫵕, 𦬔, 𢦞, 𪽫, 𮃹, 𤰰, 笊, 𮍕, 𢦼, 𤰲, 𩬐

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 688, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19653
• Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2030, character 1
• Unihan data for U+722A

Historical forms of the character 爪
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a hand grabbing from above (in earlier forms from side); compare 手, 寸, 九. Even if it can indicate a claw, actually the pictogram depicts a human hand.

爪

1. claw (of animal, bird); talon; paw; nail
2. (Hakka) to grab with claws
3. claw-like object; foot (of an item)
4. (derogatory or humorous) hand (of a person)
5. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) nail (of a person)
6. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) bamboo rake or harrow
7. a surname

• 爪 (zhuǎ) ― paws or claws of vertebrates, except for humans, bears, ducks, geese and swans
• 鉗／钳 (qián) ― claws of arthropods (crabs, clawed lobsters, scorpions, etc.)
• 掌 (zhǎng) ― hands, paws or claws of humans (only in compounds), bears, ducks, geese or swans
• 手 (shǒu) ― hands or hooves of humans or swine (only for culinary swine hooves)
• 蹄 (tí) ― hooves

爪

1. (Southern Min) to claw; to scratch (with one's claw or nail)
2. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) Classifier for claw or scratch mark.

• “爪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. nail, claw

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: つめ (tsume, 爪, Jōyō)、つま (tsuma, 爪, Jōyō ^†)

 

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

爪

Wikipedia ^ja

From Old Japanese,^[1] in turn from Proto-Japonic *tumay. The standalone form of tsuma below.^[1]

• (Tokyo) つめ [tsùmé] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨme̞]

爪(つめ) • (tsume) 

1. nail; claw

From Old Japanese. The root form of tsume above, generally only used in compounds. Cognate with 端 (tsuma, “edge, side of something”) and 妻 (tsuma, “wife”, original sense of “spouse”).^[1]

爪(つま) • (tsuma) 

1. (only in compounds) nail; claw

Distantly related with Proto-Mongolic *ǰaxun (“hundred”), whence Classical Mongolian ᠵᠠᠭᠤᠨ (ǰaɣun) (> Mongolian зуу (zuu) and Daur jau).

爪 (jau)

1. hundred (100)

From Middle Chinese 爪 (MC tsraewX). Recorded as Middle Korean 조〮 (cwó) (Yale: cwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

爪

Wikisource

爪 (eumhun 손톱 조 (sontop jo))

1. hanja form^? of 조 (“nail; claw”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

爪: Hán Nôm readings: trảo, trẩu, vuốt, trảu

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