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莒

莒

Translingual

Han character

莒 (radical 140 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿口竹口 (TRHR) or 廿口口 (TRR), four-corner 44606)

  1. hemp-like plant
  2. taro
  3. herb

References

  • KangXi: page 1034, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31046
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3204, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8392

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 莒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (呂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫚 *ra
閭 *ra
吕 *ɡ·raʔ
侣 *raʔ
梠 *raʔ
郘 *raʔ
絽 *raʔ
莒 *klaʔ
筥 *klaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 莒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居許切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /kiɔX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.raʔ/ (dialect: *k.r- > > kr-)
English plant; place name

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 莒
Reading # 1/1
No. 8584
Phonetic
component		 呂
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 舉
Old
Chinese		 /*klaʔ/

Definitions

莒

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Compounds

  • 在莒
  • 毋忘在莒
  • 莒光
  • 莒光樓／莒光楼
  • 莒光連隊／莒光连队
  • 莒刀
  • 莒拳
  • 莒縣／莒县

Japanese

Kanji

莒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

莒 • ‎(geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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