茎

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See also: 莖
茎 U+830E, 茎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-830E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 茏 →

Translingual

Traditional 莖
Shinjitai 茎
Simplified 茎

Han character

茎 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓人一 (TNOM), composition ⿱艹圣 or ⿱艹𢀖)

  1. stem, stalk

Usage notes

Due to Han unification, this Unicode character appears as 茎 (艹𢀖) in PRC-style fonts and 茎 (艹圣) in Japan-style fonts. Compare 径 and 径.

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1027, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30861
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3198, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+830E

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 茎 – see 莖 (“stem; stalk; something like a stalk; tall and straight; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 莖).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

茎

Kyūjitai

莖

Kanji

茎

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 莖)

Readings

  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kan’yō-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
  • Kun: くき (kuki, 茎, Jōyō)、くく (kuku, 茎)、なかご (nakago, 茎)
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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
茎
くき
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
莖 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese, attested in the Kakyō Hyōshiki of 772 with the phonetic spelling 倶基.[1] In turn, from Proto-Japonic *kukuy.

This word has an alternating form くく (kuku) which only occurs in compounds.[1] For the reason of this vowel alternation, see WT:AJPX#Standalone forms and combining forms.

Pronunciation

Noun

茎(くき) • (kuki) 

  1. stem, stalk

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
茎
なかご
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
莖 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

茎(なかご) • (nakago) 

  1. (swords) tang (part of a sword blade)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 253
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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