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蒹

蒹

Translingual

Han character

蒹 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿X金 (TTXC), four-corner 44237)

  1. reed, Phragmites australis ( <= Phragmites communis), common reed

References

  • KangXi: page 1050, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31621
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3269, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+84B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蒹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒹
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譧 *r'eːms
賺 *r'eːms
尲 *kreːm
鹻 *kreːmʔ
歉 *kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏 *kʰreːmʔ
鰜 *ɡreːm, *keːm
稴 *ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏 *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉 *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉 *ɡ·rem
鎌 *ɡ·rem
鬑 *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮 *ɡ·rem
簾 *ɡ·rem
薕 *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊 *ɡ·rem
嬚 *ɡ·remʔ
溓 *ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰 *kʰremʔ
隒 *ŋɡremʔ
熑 *ɡ·reːm
濂 *ɡ·reːm
燫 *ɡ·reːm
兼 *keːm, *keːms
縑 *keːm
鶼 *keːm
蒹 *keːm
搛 *keːm
謙 *kʰeːm
膁 *kʰeːmʔ
嗛 *kʰeːmʔ
慊 *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔 *kʰeːms
馦 *qʰeːm
嫌 *ɡeːm
鼸 *ɡeːmʔ
尷 *kreːm

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蒹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古甜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kem/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kem/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛm/
Li
Rong		 /kem/
Wang
Li		 /kiem/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiem/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蒹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kem ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤem/
English rush, sedge

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 蒹
Reading # 1/1
No. 6066
Phonetic
component		 兼
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 兼
Old
Chinese		 /*keːm/

Definitions

蒹

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Compounds

  • 蒹葭
  • 蒹葭倚玉

Japanese

Kanji

蒹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蒹 • ‎(gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune-Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyem)

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