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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土 (TG), four-corner 44104, composition)

  1. name of a herb

References

  • KangXi: page 1018, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30679
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3174, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+828F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɦljaːʔ
*ʔl'aːʔ, *l'aːʔ
*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ
*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l̥ʰaːs
*l̥ʰaːʔ
*l'aːʔ
*l'aːʔ
*l'aːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ).

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. name of a herb