窓

窓 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十金戈心 (JCIP), composition ⿱㝐心 or ⿱宀忩)

• 𬄔 𮈾 𨬃 𥲡 𦹎 𫯸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25494
• Dae Jaweon: page 1293, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2730, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7A93

This character is listed in the Kangxi dictionary (廣韻) as an unorthodox form (俗字) of 窻.

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 窻)

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←そう (sou, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: まど (mado, 窓, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese. Compound of 目 (ma, “eye”, ancient combining form of modern 目 (me)) +‎ 門 (to, “gate, opening”), in reference to an opening for looking through.[1][2][3]

Alternatively, may be a compound of 間 (ma, “gap”) +‎ 門 (to, “gate, opening”).[1][3][4]

First cited in some references to a text from 794,[5] and also found in the Man'yōshū of 759.[6]

The Microsoft Windows sense is a calque of English Windows.

• (Tokyo) ま​ど [máꜜdò] (Atamadaka – [1])[7][4][8]
• IPA^(key): [ma̠do̞]

窓(まど) • (mado) 

1. [from 759] window

   Synonym: (rare) 窓牖 (sōyū)

2. [from 1931] (regional, dialect, Etchū region) a deep gap in a mountain ridge (so called for the way the wind blows through, like a window[1][7])

   Synonym: (Shinshū region) きれっと (kiretto)

3. [date uncertain] マド: (investing) on a candlestick chart, a gap in day-to-day candlesticking caused by a marked increase or decrease in the price of a security, derivative, currency, or other investment

   Synonym: 空 (sora)

• → Yami: mado

窓(まど) • (Mado) 

1. (Internet slang, dated) Windows (an operating system)

• 林(りん)檎(ご) (Ringo, “Apple, Macintosh”)
• 毒(どく)林(りん)檎(ご) (Doku ringo, “Apple, Macintosh”)

窓 (eumhun 창문 창 (changmun chang))

1. Hanja form^? of 창 (“window”).

窓: Hán Nôm readings: song

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