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萑

萑

Translingual

Han character

萑 (radical 140 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土 (TOG), four-corner 44214, composition ⿱艹隹)

  1. grass used for making mats
  2. Huanpu (萑蒲), a place famous for robbers

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1041, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31272
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1500, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3235, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+8411

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 萑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kljul) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 隹 ‎(OC *tjul).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 萑 萑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 脂 (16) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 職追切 胡官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiuɪ/ /ɦuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʷi/ /ɦʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjuɪ/ /ɣuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cwi/ /ɦwan/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕui/ /ɣuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕwi/ /ɣuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕwi/ /ɣuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuī huán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 萑
Reading # 1/1
No. 17720
Phonetic
component		 隹
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 錐
Old
Chinese		 /*kljul/

Japanese

Kanji

萑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Vietnamese

Han character

萑 (hoàn, chuy)

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