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葛

葛

Translingual

Han character

葛 (radical 140 艸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日心女 (TAPV), four-corner 44727, composition ⿱艹曷)

References

  • KangXi: page 1045, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31420
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1506, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3248, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+845B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 葛

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 葛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 曷 (63)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古達切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kat̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɑt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ge
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 葛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kat ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤat/
English Dolichos; kudzu

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 葛
Reading # 1/1
No. 5022
Phonetic
component		 曷
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 葛
Old
Chinese		 /*kaːd/

Definitions

葛

  1. vine
  2. kudzu (Pueraria lobata)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

葛

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

葛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

葛 ‎(hiragana くず, romaji kuzu)

  1. kudzu

葛 ‎(hiragana かずら, romaji kazura)

  1. creeper

Korean

Hanja

葛 • ‎(gal) (hangeul 갈, revised gal, McCune-Reischauer kal, Yale kal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

葛 (cát, nhật)

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