Key - Key

Japanese: 鑰 - かぎ
Key - Key

...The wooden inserts used today on shutters and other fixtures, such as latches and latches, are also a simple form of lock, and this principle remains the same in both the West and the East.
[Orient]
In China, the characters for key (ken) and key (yaku) already appear in documents from the Zhou and Han dynasties, but there are no particular relics. However, there are expressions such as "five-inch key" and "one-foot key," so it must have been quite long.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "key" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…今日でも雨戸などに使われている〈さる〉や閂(かんぬき)などの木製の差込み棒も,単純な形式の錠であり,この原理は西洋も東洋もかわらない。
[東洋]
 中国で鍵(けん)とか鑰(やく)とかの字は,すでに周,漢の文献に見えているが,とくに遺品というべきものはない。ただ〈五寸の鍵〉とか〈一尺の鍵〉とかいう言葉があるから,かなり長かったものにちがいない。…

※「鑰」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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