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Translingual
Han character
芰 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿十水 (TJE), four-corner 44407, composition ⿱艹支)
- water caltrop
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1020, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30733
- Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3178, character 8
- Unihan data for U+82B0
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 支
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*kje
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| 枝
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*kje
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| 肢
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*kje
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| 汥
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*kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
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| 衼
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*kje
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| 馶
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*kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
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| 鳷
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*kje
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| 忮
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*kjes
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| 伎
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*kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
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| 豉
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*ɡjes
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| 翅
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*qʰjes
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| 翄
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*qʰjes, *ɡe
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| 妓
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*kre, *ɡreʔ
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| 庋
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*kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
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| 跂
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*kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
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| 蚑
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*kʰes, *ɡe
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| 吱
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*kʰes
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| 岐
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*ɡe
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| 歧
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*ɡe
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| 鬾
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*ɡre, *ɡres
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| 技
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*ɡreʔ
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| 芰
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*ɡres
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| 攱
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*kʷreʔ, *kʷres
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| 庪
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*kʷreʔ
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| 頍
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*kʰʷeʔ
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| 屐
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*ɡreɡ
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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芰
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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jì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ gjeH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*re-s/
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| English
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water-chestnut
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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芰
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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17232
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Phonetic
component
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支
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Rime
group
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支
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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芰
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɡres/
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Definitions
芰
- (chiefly archaic) water chestnut (Trapa spp.)
- Synonym: 菱 (líng)
屈到嗜芰，有疾，召其宗老而屬之，曰：「祭我必以芰。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
屈到嗜芰，有疾，召其宗老而属之，曰：「祭我必以芰。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Guoyu, circa 4th century BCE
- Qū Dào shì jì, yǒu jí, zhào qí zōnglǎo ér zhǔ zhī, yuē: “Jì wǒ bì yǐ jì.”
- Qu Dao was fond of water chestnuts. When he succumbed to illness, he called for his vassal in charge of the ancestral rites, and requested the use of water chestnuts as the sacrificial offering to him after his death.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
芰
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
- water caltrop
Readings
Etymology
Noun
芰 or 芰 • (hishi)
- Alternative spelling of 菱 (hishi): Trapa natans var. japonica, a species of water caltrop
Korean
Hanja
芰 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)
- (마름): water caltrop, (also implausibly) water chestnut
- 1431: 鄕藥採取月令 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):
芰實鄕名末栗'"`UNIQref00000018QINU`"' '"`UNIQref00000019QINU`"' (기실향명말밤, gisilhyangmyeongmalbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")- 芰實鄕名 末栗 (gisilhyangmyeongmalbam, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam , "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut .)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
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