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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿女口 (TVR), four-corner 44460)

  1. roots
  2. vegetables
  3. eat
  4. bear

References

  • KangXi: page 1029, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30921
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3211, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8339

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rnaː
*rnaː
*rnaː
*rnaː, *na
*rnaː, *naː, *naːs
*rnaː, *na
*rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
*rnaːw
*rnaːw
*n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
*naː
*naː, *naːʔ
*naː
*naː
*naːʔ
*naːʔ
*naːʔ, *naːs
*na
*na
*naʔ, *nas
*naʔ
*hnjas
*nja, *njas
*nja, *njaʔ, *njas
*nja, *njas
*nja
*nja
*njaʔ
*njaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njas) : semantic  (grass, plants) + phonetic  (OC *nja, *njas) – plant roots, part of a plant.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (38) (38) (38)
Final () (22) (22) (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () III III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨʌ/ /ȵɨʌX/ /ȵɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɔ/ /ȵiɔX/ /ȵiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiɔ/ /ȵʑiɔX/ /ȵʑiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵɨə̆/ /ȵɨə̆X/ /ȵɨə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɔ/ /ȵiɔX/ /ȵiɔH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭo/ /ȵʑĭoX/ /ȵʑĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯wo/ /ȵʑi̯woX/ /ȵʑi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyoX › ‹ nyoH › ‹ nyoH ›
Old
Chinese
/*naʔ/ /*na-s/ /*naʔ-s/
English swallow, eat scrutinize swallow, eat

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 9624 9630 9633
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nja/ /*njaʔ/ /*njas/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 吐剛茹柔吐刚茹柔
  • 含辛茹苦
  • 拔茅連茹拔茅连茹
  • 柔茹剛吐柔茹刚吐
  • 柔茹寡斷柔茹寡断
  • 竹茹 (zhúrú)
  • 茅茹
  • 茹古涵今
  • 茹柔吐剛茹柔吐刚
  • 茹毛飲血茹毛饮血
  • 茹泣吞悲
  • 茹素
  • 茹苦含辛
  • 茹荼
  • 茹葷茹荤
  • 茹魚去蠅茹鱼去蝇
  • 菜茹
  • 蔬茹氣蔬茹气
  • 銜悲茹恨衔悲茹恨
  • 銜聲茹氣衔声茹气
  • 飯糗茹草饭糗茹草
  • 飲冰茹蘗饮冰茹蘗
  • 飲血茹毛饮血茹毛

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yeo) (hangeul , revised yeo, McCune-Reischauer yŏ, Yale ye)

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