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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土火 (TOGF), four-corner 44331, composition)

  1. banana
  2. plantain

References

  • KangXi: page 1057, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31937
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1520, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3292, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8549

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsrews
*ʔsew
*ʔsew
*ʔsew
*ʔsew, *ʔsews, *zew
*ʔsew, *zews
*ʔsew
*ʔsew, *zew
*ʔsew
*ʔsew, *ʔsewɢ
*ʔsews
*ʔsews
*ʔsews, *zews, *lews
*zew
*zew
*zew
*zew, *zews
*zew
*zew
*zew, *seːw
*ʔsreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡siaw/
Li
Rong
/t͡siɛu/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6342
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsew/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 旅人蕉
  • 朱蕉
  • 松尾芭蕉
  • 甘蕉 (gānjiāo)
  • 石油蕉
  • 美人蕉
  • 芭蕉 (bājiāo)
  • 芭蕉布
  • 芭蕉扇
  • 芭蕉洞
  • 芭蕉科
  • 芭蕉芋
  • 蕉嶺縣蕉岭县
  • 蕉布
  • 蕉扇
  • 蕉萃
  • 蕉葉蕉叶
  • 蕉葛
  • 蕉藕
  • 蕉農蕉农
  • 蕉鹿夢蕉鹿梦
  • 蕉麻
  • 覆蕉尋鹿覆蕉寻鹿
  • 覆鹿尋蕉覆鹿寻蕉
  • 覆鹿遺蕉覆鹿遗蕉
  • 香蕉 (xiāngjiāo)
  • 香蕉水
  • 香蕉油

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(cho) (hangeul , revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu)

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