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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰroːŋ
*sʰroːŋ
*sʰroːŋ
*sʰroːŋ, *sʰloːŋ
*ʔsloːŋʔ
*ʔsloːŋʔ
*ʔsloːŋʔ
*ʔsloːŋʔ
*ʔsloːŋʔ
*ʔsloːŋʔ, *ʔsloːŋs
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋ
*sʰloːŋs
*sloːŋ, *sloːŋʔ
*sloːŋ
*sʰloŋʔ, *kjoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰloːŋ) : semantic  (grass) + phonetic  (OC *sʰloːŋ).

Han character

(radical 140 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿心大心 (TPKP), composition)

  1. scallion, scallions, leek, leeks, green onion, green onions

References

  • KangXi: page 1046, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31454
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3253, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8471

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified and variant traditional form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. a leek
  2. green

Readings

Kanji in this term
ねぎ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(counter , hiragana ねぎ, romaji negi)

  1. scallion, leek

Synonyms

References

  1. 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

(chong) (hangeul , revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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