tangramn.

Brit.

/ˈtanɡram/, U.S.

/ˈtæŋˌɡræm/,

/ˈtænˌɡræm/

Etymology: Origin obscure: second element apparently -gram comb. form.

The name given to a Chinese geometrical puzzle consisting of a square dissected into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to make two equal squares, and also so as to form several hundred figures, having a rude resemblance to houses, boats, bottles, glasses, urns, birds, beasts, men, etc. The Chinese name is Ch'i ch'iao t'u ‘seven ingenious plan’. The name tangram seems to have been given in England, or perhaps in U.S. but some have conjectured for the first element Chinese t'an ‘to extend’, or t'ang commonly used in Canton for ‘Chinese’. Others have conjectured Tan to be the name of the inventor; but no such person is known to Chinese scholars.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > Chinese puzzle

Chinese puzzlec1815

tangram1864

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tangram, a Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or [the like] into seven pieces.

1874 S. W. Williams Syllabic Dict. Chinese Lang. 987 [Ch‘i ch‘iao t‘u] The Chinese puzzle of seven pieces, the tangram.

1908 H. E. Dudeney Tales with Tangrams in Strand Mag. Nov. 581 It is probable that Tangrams were originally designed not as a pastime, but as a means of instruction... Professor Max Müller said that ‘the science of Tangrams gave evidence of a higher state of civilization than now exists in China’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tangram
释义	tangramn. Brit. /ˈtanɡram/, U.S. /ˈtæŋˌɡræm/, /ˈtænˌɡræm/ Etymology: Origin obscure: second element apparently -gram comb. form. The name given to a Chinese geometrical puzzle consisting of a square dissected into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to make two equal squares, and also so as to form several hundred figures, having a rude resemblance to houses, boats, bottles, glasses, urns, birds, beasts, men, etc. The Chinese name is Ch'i ch'iao t'u ‘seven ingenious plan’. The name tangram seems to have been given in England, or perhaps in U.S. but some have conjectured for the first element Chinese t'an ‘to extend’, or t'ang commonly used in Canton for ‘Chinese’. Others have conjectured Tan to be the name of the inventor; but no such person is known to Chinese scholars. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > Chinese puzzle Chinese puzzlec1815 tangram1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tangram, a Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or [the like] into seven pieces. 1874 S. W. Williams Syllabic Dict. Chinese Lang. 987 [Ch‘i ch‘iao t‘u] The Chinese puzzle of seven pieces, the tangram. 1908 H. E. Dudeney Tales with Tangrams in Strand Mag. Nov. 581 It is probable that Tangrams were originally designed not as a pastime, but as a means of instruction... Professor Max Müller said that ‘the science of Tangrams gave evidence of a higher state of civilization than now exists in China’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864
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