栂

Translingual

Han character

栂 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木田卜戈 (DWYI), composition ⿰木母)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 521, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14686
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1192, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6802

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

栂

1. a kind of evergreen tree, hemlock, the genus Tsuga

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. hemlock (tree)

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: とが (toga, 栂); つが (tsuga, 栂)

Etymology 1

⟨tuɡa⟩ → /t͡suɡa/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Appears to be an alternative phonetic realization of toga below.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) つが​ (Odaka – )
• (Tokyo) つが (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

栂(つが) or 栂(ツガ) • (tsuga) 

1. a hemlock (tree), of the genus Tsuga

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ツガ.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

⟨to₁ɡa⟩ → /toɡa/

Alternative reconstruction:

⟨to₁ɡa⟩ → */twoɡa/ → /toɡa/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Appears to be an alternative phonetic realization of tsuga above.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) と​が (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

栂(とが) • (toga) 

1. a hemlock (tree), of the genus Tsuga

Usage notes

Less commonly used than the tsuga reading above.

Derived terms

References

Korean

Hanja

栂 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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