莕

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莕 U+8395, 莕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8395
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莖 →

Translingual

Han character

莕 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿木口 (TDR), four-corner 44609, composition ⿱艹杏)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31050
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3215, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8395

Chinese

trad. 莕
simp. # 莕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (杏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
杏 *ɡraːŋʔ
莕 *ɡraːŋʔ

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

Pronunciation

Definitions

莕

  1. Alternative form of 荇 (xìng)

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “莕”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

Japanese

Kanji

莕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): こう (kō)、ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kun: はなじゆんさい (hanajiyunsai)

Mandarin

Hanzi

莕 (Pinyin xìng (xing4), Wade-Giles hsing4)

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