鞘

鞘 (Kangxi radical 177, 革+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿十火月 (TJFB), four-corner 4952₇, composition ⿰革肖)

• 鞩

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1388, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42850
• Dae Jaweon: page 1902, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4336, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9798

鞘

1. scabbard; sheath
2. tube used to carry valuables

• (scabbard): (literary, or in compounds) 室 (shì)

鞘

1. thong

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: さや (saya, 鞘)

• (Tokyo) さや [sáꜜyà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ja̠]

鞘(さや) • (saya) 

1. sheath; scabbard (sword holster)
2. case (to store something in)
   • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 13, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 中 両親と私 [My Parents and I]:

     枕(まくら)の傍(そば)にある老(ろう)眼(がん)鏡(きょう)は、いつまでも黒(くろ)い鞘(さや)に納(おさ)められたままであった。

     Makura no soba ni aru rōgankyō wa, itsumademo kuroi saya ni osamerareta mama de atta.

     The reading glasses by his pillow forever stayed in their black case.

3. (finance) margin

• “^▲鞘”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

鞘 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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