Translingual

Han character

茨 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈一人 (TIMO) or 廿一一人 (TMMO), four-corner 4418₂, composition ⿱艹次)

1. caltrop

Synonyms

• Tribulus terrestris

References

• KangXi: page 1028, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30896
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3208, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8328

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 茨
Large seal script	Small seal script

Pronunciation

Definitions

茨

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Alternative forms

• 荊
• 棘

Readings

• On: し (shi), じ (ji)
• Kun: いばら (ibara), くさぶき (kusabuki), かや (kaya)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /umara/

Noun

茨 ‎(hiragana うまら, romaji umara)

1. a shrub with thorns
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 47)

     翹棘 翹尅 音交 訓久波多川 棘 音里 訓宇末良

2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Etymology 2

umara → ubara. Medial /m/ looses nasality, becoming /b/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ubara/

Noun

茨 ‎(hiragana うばら, romaji ubara)

1. any shrub with thorns
2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Etymology 3

umara → ubara → ibara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ibara/

Noun

茨 ‎(hiragana いばら, romaji ibara)

1. a shrub with thorns
2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Derived terms

• 薔薇 (bara)

References

• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.

Korean

Hanja

茨 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茨 (tỳ, tì)

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