蕨

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蕨 U+8568, 蕨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8568
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Translingual

Han character

蕨 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿一廿人 (TMTO), four-corner 44282, composition ⿱艹厥)

  1. Pteris aquilina (common bracken)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32001
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3289, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8568

Chinese

trad. 蕨
simp. # 蕨
alternative forms 𧂱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (欮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鱖 *krods, *kod
蹶 *krods, *krod, *kod
厥 *kod, *kud
欮 *kod
蕨 *kod
劂 *kod
瘚 *kod
蟨 *kod
蟩 *kod
橜 *kod, *ɡod
撅 *kod, *ɡod
闕 *kʰod
橛 *ɡod
鷢 *ɡod
蹷 *ɡod
憠 *ɡod

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan སྐྱས་མ (skyas ma) ~ སྐྱེས་མ (skyes ma, “fern”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蕨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 月 (68)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居月切
Baxter kjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kuat̚/
Li
Rong 		/kiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li 		/kĭwɐt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ki̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jue
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gyut3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蕨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jué
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjwot ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.kot/
English bracken (a kind of edible fern)

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 蕨
Reading # 1/1
No. 7231
Phonetic
component 		欮
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		厥
Old
Chinese 		/*kod/

Definitions

蕨

  1. bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)

See also

  • 薇 (wēi, “royal fern”)

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Tai: *kuːtᴰ
  • → Vietnamese: guột

Japanese

Kanji

蕨

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: こち (kochi)
  • Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
  • Kun: わらび (warabi, 蕨)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蕨
わらび
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
 ワラビ on Japanese Wikipedia

Noun

蕨(わらび) or 蕨(ワラビ) • (warabi) 

  1. Japanese bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum subsp. japonicum

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

Proper noun

蕨(わらび) • (Warabi) 

  1. Warabi (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)

Korean

Hanja

蕨 • (gwol) (hangeul 궐, revised gwol, McCune–Reischauer kwŏl, Yale kwel)

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