荇

荇 U+8347, 荇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8347 ← 荆 [U+8346] CJK Unified Ideographs 荈 → [U+8348]

Translingual

Han character

荇 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人弓 (THON), four-corner 4422₁, composition ⿱艹行)

1. banana-plant

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1030, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30942
• Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3206, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8347

Chinese

trad.		荇
simp. #		荇
alternative forms		莕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
筕	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
桁	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
行	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
胻	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡	*ɡraːŋ
蘅	*ɡraːŋ
珩	*ɡraːŋ
洐	*ɡraːŋ
荇	*ɡraːŋʔ
絎	*ɡraːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): heng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
    • Yale: syìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
    • Palladius: син (sin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hang⁶
    • Yale: hahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: heng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛŋ²¹/

Definitions

荇

1. Used in 荇菜 (xìngcài).

Compounds

• 荇菜 (xìngcài)
• 藻荇

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “荇”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

Japanese

Kanji

荇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. yellow floating heart (nymphoides peltalum)

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: はなじゅんさい (hanajunsai)

Korean

Hanja

荇 (eum 행 (haeng))

1. Nymphoides peltata
2. water chestnut