蓀
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See also: 荪
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Translingual
Han character
蓀 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓木火 (TNDF), four-corner 44493, composition ⿱艹孫)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 26
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31635
- Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3272, character 16
- Unihan data for U+84C0
Chinese
| trad. | 蓀 | |
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| simp. | 荪 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 蓀 | |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *suːn) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 孫 (OC *suːn).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sun
- Wade–Giles: sun1
- Yale: swūn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suen
- Palladius: сунь (sunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /su̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: syun1
- Yale: syūn
- Cantonese Pinyin: syn1
- Guangdong Romanization: xun1
- Sinological IPA (key): /syːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: swon
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*suːn/
Definitions
蓀
- (literary) sweet flag (Acorus)
- Used in 溪蓀／溪荪.
Japanese
Kanji
蓀
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
蓀 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)
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