Translingual

Han character

苴 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿月一 (TBM), four-corner 4410₇, composition ⿱艹且)

References

• KangXi: page 1024, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30813
• Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3190, character 5
• Unihan data for U+82F4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 苴
Oracle bone script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass”) + phonetic 且 ‎(OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

苴

1. ^†female hemp plant; seed-bearing hemp
2. ^†seeds of female hemp
3. ^†coarse; rough
4. ^†gunny; sackcloth
5. ^†gunny sack; package; cattail bag
6. ^† to package
7. ^† to patch; to mend
8. ^†Alternative form of 菹 (“marshland full of waterweed”).
9. A surname​.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

苴

1. ^†grass insole; pad in shoe

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

苴

1. ^†floating weed; dead grass
2. (historical) A vassal state of the State of Shu during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Compounds

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

苴

1. ^†humic soil; dregs; dross
2. ^†Alternative form of 柤 (zhā, “hawthorn”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 5

Definitions

苴

1. ^†Alternative form of 葅 (“straw”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 6

Definitions

苴

1. (historical) Only used in 羊苴咩 (“Yangxiemie, capital city of Nanzhao in modern-day Dali”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

苴

1. (Min Nan) to lay something on a surface
2. (Min Nan) cushion; pad

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #5471”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そ (so), しょ (sho), さ (sa)
• Kun: つと (tsuto)

Korean

Hanja

苴 • ‎(jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苴 (thư, tra, tư)

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