苧

苧 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿十一弓 (TJMN) or 難廿十一弓 (XTJMN), four-corner 4420₁, composition ⿱艹宁)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1024, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30798
• Dae Jaweon: page 1483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3196, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82E7

Simplified from 薴 (寧 → 宁).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 宁 (OC *da, *daʔ).

苧

1. ramie (Boehmeria nivea)

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: じょ (jo)^{←ぢよ (dyo, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょ (cho)^{←ちよ (tyo, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ま (ma)
• Kun: お (o, 苧)^{←を (wo, 苧, historical)}、むし (mushi)、からむし (karamushi, 苧)、からんし (karanshi, 苧)、こるむし (korumushi, 苧)

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

苧(お) • (o) ^{←を (wo)?}

1. hemp or ramie
   • c. 918, Honzō Wamyō:

     苧根 山苧_{相似、不入用}和名乎乃祢

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. thread made from the outer husk of the stems of hemp or ramie
3. a textile made from this thread

• (hemp): 麻(あさ) (asa)
• (ramie): 苧(からむし) (karamushi)
• (thread, in general): 糸(いと) (ito)

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From Old Japanese. Possibly the original name for the plant, or for the fiber from this plant.

Compare Korean 모시 (mosi, “ramie cloth; ramie plant”), Ainu モセ (mose), ムセ (muse, “nettle plant; bast fiber in general”). Alexander Vovin believes that the Old Japanese word was borrowed from Korean. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key):

苧(むし) • (mushi) 

1. (obsolete) old name for karamushi: the ramie plant, Boehmeria nivea var. nipononivea
2. short for 帔(むしのたれぎぬ), 枲(むし)の垂(た)れ衣(ぎぬ) (mushi no tareginu), a kind of veil made of ramie and worn from the brim of a hat by women from the Heian period through the Kamakura period

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Appears to be a compound of 殻 (kara, “husk”) +‎ 苧 (mushi, “ramie fiber”).

Some sources suggest that the mushi component derives from 蒸し (mushi, “steaming”), from verb 蒸す (musu, “to steam something; to be steamy or muggy”). However, ramie is not processed using steam, so these are more likely to be folk etymologies.

• (Tokyo) からむし (Nakadaka – )^[2][3]
• (Tokyo) からむし (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

苧(からむし) • (karamushi) 

1. the ramie plant, Boehmeria nivea (syn. Boehmeria nipononivea)
2. a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. a textile made from this thread
   • circa 800, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 2: Shibunritsu Ongi, Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN, page 47:

     蒭麻衣 加良牟斯衣

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• 苧(からむし)頭(ず)巾(きん) (karamushi zukin): a 頭巾 (zukin, “headcloth, bandana”) made from ramie

• Boehmeria at The Plant List

/karamuɕi/ → /karanɕi/

Alteration from karamushi. Rare and obsolete reading.

• IPA^(key):

苧(からんし) • (karanshi) 

1. (rare, obsolete) the ramie plant
2. (rare, obsolete) a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. (rare, obsolete) a textile made from this thread

/karamuɕi/ → /korumuɕi/

Alteration from karamushi. Rare and obsolete reading.

• IPA^(key):

苧(こるむし) • (korumushi) 

1. (rare, obsolete) the ramie plant
2. (rare, obsolete) a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. (rare, obsolete) a textile made from this thread
   • circa 800, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 2: Shibunritsu Ongi, Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN, page 47:

     纎麻衣 古流牟斯衣

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Middle Chinese 薴 (MC nreang), but read with the on'yomi from 麻 (ma, “hemp”). Compare modern Mandarin 苧 (zhù), 麻 (má).

• IPA^(key):

苧(ま) • (ma) 

1. the ramie or hemp plant or fiber

From Middle Chinese 薴 (MC nreang). Compare modern Mandarin 苧 (zhù).

• IPA^(key):

苧(ちょ) • (cho) 

1. the ramie or hemp plant or fiber

• Fukane no Sukehito (c. 901–923) Maruyama Yumiko, Wu Qian, editors, Honzō Wamyō: Eiin, Honkoku to Kenkyū) (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin, published 2021, →ISBN.

苧 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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苧: Hán Nôm readings: trữ

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