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葱

葱

See also: 蔥

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (囱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
牎 *sʰroːŋ
窗 *sʰroːŋ
窓 *sʰroːŋ
囱 *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloːŋ
總 *ʔsloːŋʔ
熜 *ʔsloːŋʔ
傯 *ʔsloːŋʔ
緫 *ʔsloːŋʔ
揔 *ʔsloːŋʔ
偬 *ʔsloːŋʔ, *ʔsloːŋs
囪 *sʰloːŋ
璁 *sʰloːŋ
驄 *sʰloːŋ
蔥 *sʰloːŋ
匆 *sʰloːŋ
怱 *sʰloːŋ
葱 *sʰloːŋ
楤 *sʰloːŋ
聦 *sʰloːŋ
繱 *sʰloːŋ
騘 *sʰloːŋ
鍯 *sʰloːŋ
聰 *sʰloːŋ
愡 *sʰloːŋs
檧 *sloːŋ, *sloːŋʔ
憽 *sloːŋ
幒 *sʰloŋʔ, *kjoŋ

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

Han character

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

  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 葱 – see 蔥.
(This character, 葱, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 蔥.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

葱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. a leek
  2. green

Readings

Kanji in this term
葱
ねぎ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

葱 ‎(counter 本, 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

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

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