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芋

芋

Translingual

Han character

芋 (radical 140 艸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一木 (TMD) or X廿一木 (XTMD), four-corner 44401, composition ⿱艹于)

  1. taro

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1018, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30670
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3174, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+828B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 芋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
侉 *qaːls
夸 *kʰʷraː
姱 *kʰʷraː
胯 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇 *kʰʷraː
垮 *kʰʷraːʔ
銙 *kʰʷraːʔ
骻 *kʰʷraːʔ
咵 *kʰʷraːʔ
釫 *ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦 *ɡʷraːs
鮬 *pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀 *qʰʷl'aː
扝 *kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳 *kʰʷaː
郀 *kʰʷaː
挎 *kʰʷaː
袴 *kʰʷaːs
絝 *kʰʷaːs
褲 *kʰʷaːs
恗 *qʰaː
洿 *ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠 *ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠 *ɢʷlaːʔ
污 *qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇 *qʷaː
圬 *qʷaː
鴮 *qʷaː
盓 *qʷaː
汙 *qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗 *qʰʷl'a
摴 *qʰʷl'a
荂 *pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩 *qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁 *qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱 *qʰʷa
訏 *qʰʷa
扜 *qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴 *qʰʷa
冔 *qʰʷaʔ
紆 *qʷa
陓 *qʷa
迂 *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶 *qʷa
于 *ɢʷa
盂 *ɢʷa
竽 *ɢʷa
邘 *ɢʷa
玗 *ɢʷa
芋 *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅 *ɢʷa
釪 *ɢʷa
骬 *ɢʷa
謣 *ɢʷla
宇 *ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 芋
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ɣioH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a-s/
English taro (Colocasia antiquorum?)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 芋
Reading # 2/2
No. 15720
Phonetic
component		 于
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 芋
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷas/

Definitions

芋

  1. taro
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 芋頭 (“taro”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 芋頭
Mandarin Beijing 芋頭
Taiwan 芋頭
Cantonese Guangzhou 芋頭
Hong Kong 芋頭
Taishan 芋頭
Gan Nanchang 芋頭
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 芋仔、芋頭
Liudui (S. Sixian) 芋仔、芋頭
Hsinchu (Hailu) 芋仔、芋頭
Dongshi (Dabu) 芋、芋頭、芋卵
Zhuolan (Raoping) 芋仔、芋、芋頭、芋卵
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 芋、芋卵
Jin Taiyuan 芋頭
Min Nan Quanzhou 芋
Xiamen 芋
Zhangzhou 芋
Taipei 芋仔
Kaohsiung 芋仔
Tainan 芋仔
Taichung 芋仔
Yilan 芋仔
Lukang 芋仔
Sanxia 芋仔
Kinmen 芋
Magong 芋
Hsinchu 芋仔
Malaysia 芋
Chaozhou 芋
Wu Shanghai 芋艿
Xiang Changsha 芋頭、芋子

Compounds

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 芋
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羽俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ɣio/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yú
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 芋
Reading # 1/2
No. 15712
Phonetic
component		 于
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 于
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷa/

Definitions

芋

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Pronunciation

Definitions

芋

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Pronunciation

Definitions

芋

  1. Only used in 芋尹 (yùyǐn).

Japanese

Kanji

芋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation

Noun

芋 ‎(hiragana いも, romaji imo)

  1. a potato; a sweet potato; a taro; a yam

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  2. ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

芋 • ‎(u, hu) (hangeul 우, 후, revised u, hu, McCune-Reischauer u, hu, Yale wu, hwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芋 (dụ, vu)

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