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藕

藕

Translingual

Han character

藕 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿手木月 (TQDB), four-corner 44927, composition ⿱艹耦)

  1. lotus rhizome

References

  • KangXi: page 1065, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1529, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3317, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+85D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 藕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
齵 *ŋoː, *ŋo
偶 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
耦 *ŋoːʔ
藕 *ŋoːʔ
髃 *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
蕅 *ŋoːʔ
愚 *ŋo
隅 *ŋo
禺 *ŋo, *ŋos
湡 *ŋo
堣 *ŋo
嵎 *ŋo
鰅 *ŋo, *ŋoŋ
鍝 *ŋo
遇 *ŋos
寓 *ŋos
庽 *ŋos
媀 *ŋos
喁 *ŋoŋ
顒 *ŋoŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 藕
Mandarin Beijing /ou²¹⁴/
Harbin /ou²¹³/
Tianjin /nou¹³/
Jinan /ŋou⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ɣou⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ou⁵³/
Xi'an /ŋou⁵³/
Xining /nɯ⁵³/
Yinchuan /əu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ou⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ŋɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /ŋəu⁴²/
Chengdu /ŋəu⁵³/
Guiyang /ŋəu⁴²/
/əu⁴²/ 新
Kunming /əu⁵³/
Nanjing /əɯ²¹²/
Hefei /ʐɯ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣəu⁵³/
Pingyao /ŋəu⁵³/
Hohhot /ŋəu⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ŋɤ²³/
Suzhou /ŋɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /ŋei⁵³/
Wenzhou /ŋau³⁵/
Hui Shexian /niu³⁵/
/ŋiu³⁵/
Tunxi /ȵiu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ŋəu⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ŋəɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ŋiɛu²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /ŋeu³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɐu²³/
Nanning /ŋɐu²⁴/
Hong Kong /ŋɐu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ŋɔ⁵³/
/ŋau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋe²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋɔu²¹³/
Rime
Character 藕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五口切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋəuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋəuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋəwX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋuX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 藕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nguwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ŋˤ(r)oʔ/
English lotus root

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 藕
Reading # 1/1
No. 15915
Phonetic
component		 禺
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 藕
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋoːʔ/

Definitions

藕

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Compounds

  • 藕節／藕节 (ǒujié)
  • 藕粉
  • 藕絲／藕丝
  • 藕絲兒／藕丝儿
  • 藕色
  • 藕花
  • 藕荷
  • 藕覆
  • 藕零兒／藕零儿

Japanese

Kanji

藕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

藕 • ‎(u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

藕 (ngẫu, ngó)

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