蕁

See also: 荨

蕁 U+8541, 蕁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8541 ← 蕀 [U+8540] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕂 → [U+8542]

Translingual

Han character

蕁 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿尸一戈 (TSMI), four-corner 4434₆, composition ⿱艹尋)

Derived characters

• 𤃂, 𧂇, 𧂗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1056, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31899
• Dae Jaweon: page 1519, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3297, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8541

Chinese

trad.		蕁
simp.		荨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蕁
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (尋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
襑	*l̥ʰuːmʔ, *ljum
憳	*l̥ʰuːmʔ
蕁	*l'uːm
撏	*zluːm, *ɦljom, *ljum
燖	*ljom, *ljum
尋	*ljum
潯	*ljum
樳	*ljum
鄩	*ljum

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'uːm) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 尋 (OC *ljum).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²
    • Yale: tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dom

Rime
Character	蕁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒含切
Baxter	dom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'uːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蕁
Reading #	1/1
No.	14123
Phonetic component	尋
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	覃
Old Chinese	/*l'uːm/

Definitions

蕁

1. Alternative name for 知母 (zhīmǔ, “Anemarrhena asphodeloides”).

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qián, xún

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ, ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cam⁴ / cim⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qián
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cián
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien²
    • Yale: chyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syún
    • Wade–Giles: hsün²
    • Yale: syún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/

Note: xún - Mainland standard pronunciation in 蕁麻疹.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cam⁴ / cim⁴
    • Yale: chàhm / chìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsam⁴ / tsim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cem⁴ / qim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐm²¹/, /t͡sʰiːm²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ¹³/

Definitions

蕁

1. Only used in 蕁麻／荨麻 (qiánmá) and 蕁麻疹／荨麻疹 (xúnmázhěn).

Compounds

• 蕁麻／荨麻 (qiánmá)
• 蕁麻疹／荨麻疹 (xúnmázhěn)

 

References

• “蕁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “荨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.

Japanese

Kanji

蕁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じん (jin)、たん (tan)
• Kun: はなすげ (hanasuge)、いら (ira, 蕁)、もずく (mozuku)

Korean

Hanja

蕁 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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