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U+85EA, 藪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85EA

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿中女大 (TLVK), four-corner 44448, composition )

  1. marsh, swamp
  2. wild country
  3. clump of trees or bushes

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1066, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32348
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3319, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+85EA

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter suwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/səuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/səuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/səuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/səwX/
Li
Rong
/suX/
Wang
Li
/səuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/sə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sau2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8484
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sloːʔ/

Definitions

  1. shallow lake overgrown with wild plants
  2. gathering place
Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (Cantonese, Hakka) Alternative form of  / (dòu, nest; den; home) (chiefly used in place names.)
    [Cantonese]  ―  hok6 dau3   ―  Hok Tau (a place in Hong Kong)

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Alternative forms

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. thicket, grove, copse
  2. collection

Readings

  • Go-on: (su)
  • Kan-on: そう ()
  • Kun: やぶ (yabu, )

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
やぶ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
  on Japanese Wikipedia
(yabu): a thicket of silver birch.

From Old Japanese. Found in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

(やぶ) (yabu

  1. a thicket, grove, copse (as of trees, shrubs, or bamboo)
    Synonym: (thick growth) 茂み (shigemi)
  2. Short for 藪医者 (yabu isha): a poor doctor
  3. Short for 藪入り (yabuiri): a holiday granted to servants on the 16th day of the first and seventh months
  4. Short for 藪睨み (yabunirami): a squint; a misguided thinking or view
  5. Short for 藪蕎麦 (yabusoba): a type of soba made from green buckwheat without the endocarp removed; a shop selling soba in this method

Derived terms

Idioms

Proverbs

Proper noun

(やぶ) (Yabu

  1. a surname

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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