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芰

芰

Translingual

Han character

芰 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿十水 (TJE), four-corner 44407)

  1. water caltrop

References

  • KangXi: page 1020, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30733
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3178, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+82B0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 芰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芰
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
支 *kje
枝 *kje
肢 *kje
汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼 *kje
馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷 *kje
忮 *kjes
伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉 *ɡjes
翅 *qʰjes
翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe
妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ
庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe
吱 *kʰes
岐 *ɡe
歧 *ɡe
鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres
技 *ɡreʔ
芰 *ɡres
攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪 *kʷreʔ
頍 *kʰʷeʔ
屐 *ɡreɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 芰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 奇寄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjeH/
Wang
Li		 /ɡǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]re-s/
English water-chestnut

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 芰
Reading # 1/1
No. 17232
Phonetic
component		 支
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 芰
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡres/

Definitions

芰

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Compounds

  • 芰荷

Japanese

Kanji

芰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

芰 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

  1. (마름): water caltrop, (also implausibly) water chestnut
    • 1431: 鄕藥採取月令[1] 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):
      芰實鄕名末栗[2][3] (기실향명말밤, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")

Synonyms

  • 末栗 (말밤, malbam)

Usage notes

  1. ↑ This was authored by several scholars at the direction of King Sejong of Yi Dynasty, concerning the folk medical herb gathering by month.
  2. ↑ Cited by: 南廣祐 (1997). 敎學古語辭典. 敎學社. p. 538.
  3. ↑ "末栗" is a hanja rendering for 말밤(mal-bam), the origin of 마름(mareum, 菱) "water caltrop, water chestnut," literally, "coarse chestnut" such as "horse-chestnut".

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