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芥

芥

Translingual

Han character

芥 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿人中中 (TOLL) or X廿人中中 (XTOLL), four-corner 44228, composition ⿱艹介)

  1. mustard plant
  2. mustard
  3. tiny

References

  • KangXi: page 1019, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30715
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3182, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+82A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 芥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (介) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妎 *ɡaːds, *ɡeːds
芥 *kreːds
尬 *kreːds
界 *kreːds
介 *kreːds
疥 *kreːds
玠 *kreːds
砎 *kreːds, *kreːd, *ɡraːd
魪 *kreːds
价 *kreːds
衸 *kreːds, *ɡreːds
齘 *ɡreːds
骱 *ɡaːd, *kreːd
扴 *kreːd
圿 *kreːd
忦 *kreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kreːds) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass, plant”) + phonetic 介 ‎(OC *kreːds) – a type of plant.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 芥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古拜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /kɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /kɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤr[e][t]-s/
English mustard plant

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 芥
Reading # 1/1
No. 6522
Phonetic
component		 介
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 誡
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːds/

Definitions

芥

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Compounds

  • 土芥
  • 塵芥／尘芥 (chénjiè)
  • 塵芥蟲／尘芥虫
  • 大頭芥／大头芥
  • 如拾地芥
  • 拾芥
  • 易如拾芥
  • 殺人如芥／杀人如芥
  • 纖芥不遺／纤芥不遗
  • 芥子 (jièzǐ)
  • 草芥 (cǎojiè)
  • 荊芥／荆芥 (jīngjiè)
  • 蒂芥
  • 蠆芥／虿芥
  • 視如土芥／视如土芥
  • 視如草芥／视如草芥
  • 視若草芥／视若草芥
  • 針芥相投／针芥相投
  • 鍼芥相投

Japanese

Kanji

芥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

芥 • ‎(gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芥 (giới)

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