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菌

菌

Translingual

Han character

菌 (radical 140 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田竹木 (TWHD), four-corner 44600, composition ⿱艹囷)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1037, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31156
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3234, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+83CC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 菌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (囷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
菌 *ɡonʔ, *ɡrunʔ
麇 *krun
麕 *krun
囷 *kʰrun, *ɡrun
箘 *kʰrun, *ɡrunʔ
攈 *kuns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 菌 菌
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 眞 (45) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 渠殞切 求晚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiuɪnX/ /ɡʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡʷᵚinX/ /ɡʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuenX/ /ɡiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gjinX/ /guanX/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjuĕnX/ /ɡiuɐnX/
Wang
Li		 /ɡǐĕnX/ /ɡĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ĕnX/ /gi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jùn juàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 菌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jùn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gwinX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]runʔ/
English mushroom

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 菌 菌
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10746 10752
Phonetic
component		 囷 囷
Rime
group		 元 文
Rime
subdivision		 3 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𧯦 窘
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡonʔ/ /*ɡrunʔ/
Notes 原列軫韻

Definitions

菌

  1. mushroom, fungus, mold, mildew, toadstool, yeast
  2. germ, microbe

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

菌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

菌 • ‎(gyun) (hangeul 균, revised gyun, McCune-Reischauer kyun, Yale kyun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菌 (khuẩn)

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