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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木火 (THDF), four-corner 44989)

  1. wormwood
  2. Chinese catalpa
  3. firewood

References

  • KangXi: page 1042, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31333
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1500, character 37
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3249, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+8429

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰew
*sʰiw, *sʰiws, *sʰɯw
*sʰiwʔ, *zɯwʔ
*ʔsliwʔ, *ʔsɯw, *sʰɯw, *zɯwʔ
*ʔsɯw
*ʔsɯw
*ʔsɯw
*ʔsɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*sʰɯw
*ʔsrɯws
*sʰrɯw
*zrɯw
*zrɯws

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰuw/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰiu/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiū
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10544
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰɯw/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana はぎ, romaji hagi)

  1. Japanese bush clover, genus Lespedeza. Culturally important as one of the 秋の七草 (aki no nanakusa, seven flowers of autumn).

Proper noun

(hiragana はぎ, romaji Hagi)

  1. a place name, such as that of Hagi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture
  2. A female given name.

See also


Korean

Hanja

(chu) (hangeul , revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thèm)

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