菫

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See also: 堇
菫 U+83EB, 菫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83EB
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 菬 →

Translingual

Japanese 菫
Simplified 堇
Traditional 蓳/菫/堇

Han character

菫 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿一中一 (TMLM), four-corner 44104)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1039, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31207
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1497, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 3231, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+83EB

Chinese

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 菫 – see 蓳 (“Viola verecunda, a kind of violet.”).
(This character is a variant form of 蓳).

Compounds

Japanese

Alternative forms

Kanji

菫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. the violet

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
菫
すみれ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
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Pronunciation

Noun

菫(すみれ) or 菫(スミレ) • (sumire) 

  1. a flowering plant of the family Violaceae
  2. a viola (any of several flowering plants of the genus Viola)
  3. a Viola mandshurica

Derived terms

Proper noun

菫(すみれ) • (Sumire) 

  1. a female given name

References

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. celery
  2. aconite
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