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芽
芽
Translingual
Han character
芽 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一女竹 (TMVH), four-corner 44241, composition ⿱艹牙)
See also
References
- KangXi: page 1021, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30860
- Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3179, character 13
- Unihan data for U+82BD
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
芽 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (牙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 邪 | *ljaː, *laː |
| 衺 | *ljaː |
| 牙 | *ŋraː |
| 芽 | *ŋraː |
| 齖 | *ŋraː, *ŋraːs |
| 呀 | *ŋraː, *hŋraː |
| 枒 | *ŋraː, *ŋraːs |
| 雅 | *ŋraːʔ |
| 厊 | *ŋraːʔ |
| 庌 | *ŋraːʔ |
| 訝 | *ŋraːs |
| 迓 | *ŋraːs |
| 砑 | *ŋraːs |
| 犽 | *ŋraːs |
| 疨 | *hŋraː |
| 岈 | *hŋraː |
| 谺 | *hŋraː |
| 颬 | *hŋraː |
| 鴉 | *qraː |
| 釾 | *laː |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraː) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː) – an aspect of plants.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˊ
- Wade-Giles: ya2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ya
- IPA (key): /i̯a̠³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ngaa4
- Yale: ngàh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa4
- IPA (key): /ŋɑː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngà
- Hakka Romanization System: ngaˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: nga2
- IPA: /ŋa¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gê
- Tâi-lô: gê
- Phofsit Daibuun: gee
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ge²⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /ge²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ge²³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /ge²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gêe
- Tâi-lô: gêe
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /gɛ¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gâ
- Tâi-lô: gâ
- Phofsit Daibuun: gaa
- IPA (Xiamen): /ga²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ga²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ga¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ga²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ga²³/
- Note: gê/gêe - vernacular; gâ - literary.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 芽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (98) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 五加切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ŋˠa/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ŋᵚa/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ŋa/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ŋaɨ/ |
| Li Rong |
/ŋa/ |
| Wang Li |
/ŋa/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ŋa/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yá |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 芽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yá |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ngæ › |
| Old Chinese |
/*m-ɢˤ<r>a/ |
| English | shoot, sprout |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 芽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14178 |
| Phonetic component |
牙 |
| Rime group |
魚 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
牙 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ŋraː/ |
Definitions
芽
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
芽
Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 芽 |
|
め Grade: 4 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
芽 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)
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Vietnamese
Han character
芽 (nha)
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