莕

莕 U+8395, 莕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8395 ← 莔 [U+8394] CJK Unified Ideographs 莖 → [U+8396]

Translingual

Han character

莕 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿木口 (TDR), four-corner 4460₉, composition ⿱艹杏)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31050
• Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3215, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8395

Chinese

trad.		莕
simp. #		莕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
杏	*ɡraːŋʔ
莕	*ɡraːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 杏 (OC *ɡraːŋʔ).

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

莕

1. Alternative form of 荇 (xìng)

Compounds

• 荇菜 (xìngcài)

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “莕”, 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

莕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: はなじゆんさい (hanajiyunsai)

Mandarin

Hanzi

莕 (Pinyin xìng (xing4), Wade-Giles hsing⁴)

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