芹

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芹 U+82B9, 芹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82B9
← 芸
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 芺 →

Translingual

Han character

芹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹一中 (THML), four-corner 44221, composition ⿱艹斤)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1021, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30742
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3182, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+82B9

Chinese

trad. 芹
simp. # 芹
alternative forms 斳
菦
䓅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘄 *ɡɯ, *kɯl, *ɡɯn
祈 *ɡɯl
頎 *ɡɯl
旂 *ɡɯl
圻 *ɡɯl, *ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn
蚚 *ɡɯl, *ɡɯːls
岓 *ɡɯl
玂 *ɡɯl
沂 *ŋɡɯl
掀 *qʰan
釿 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋkɯn
齗 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯn
听 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯnʔ
垽 *ŋrɯns, *qɯns
斤 *kɯn, *kɯns
菦 *kɯnʔ
靳 *kɯns
劤 *kɯns
勁 *kɯns, *keŋs
赾 *kʰɯnʔ
芹 *ɡɯn
近 *ɡɯnʔ, *ɡɯns
斦 *ŋɡɯn
欣 *qʰɯn
忻 *qʰɯn
昕 *qʰɯn
訢 *qʰɯn
炘 *qʰɯn, *qʰɯns
邤 *qʰɯn
庍 *qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
焮 *qʰɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡɯn) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 斤 (OC *kɯn, *kɯns).

Pronunciation

Note: kêng5 - Jieyang.
Rime
Character 芹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 欣 (57)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨斤切
Baxter gj+n
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡɨn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gɨn/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiən/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭən/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjɨn ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ər/
English cress

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 芹
Reading # 1/1
No. 6657
Phonetic
component 		斤
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		勤
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡɯn/

Definitions

芹

  1. water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica)
  2. celery (Apium graveolens)
  3. (figurative) meager; humble

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

芹

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica)

Readings

  • Go-on: ごん (gon)
  • Kan-on: きん (kin)
  • Kun: せり (seri, 芹)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
芹
せり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
 セリ on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Noun

芹(せり) or 芹(セリ) • (seri) 

  1. water dropwort, Oenanthe javanica
    Hypernym: 春の七草
    Coordinate terms: 芹, 薺, 御形, 繁縷, 仏の座, 菘, 蘿蔔

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

芹 • (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芹: Hán Nôm readings: cần

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