藷

See also: 薯

藷 U+85F7, 藷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85F7 ← 藶 [U+85F6] CJK Unified Ideographs 藸 → [U+85F8]

Translingual

Han character

藷 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜口日 (TYRA), four-corner 4466₄, composition ⿱艹諸)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32391
• Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3321, character 9
• Unihan data for U+85F7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 藷 – see 薯 (“Chinese yam”). (This character is a variant form of 薯).

Etymology 2

trad.		藷
simp.		𫉄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū (zhu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhu
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹
    • Yale: jū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyu¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyo

Rime
Character	藷
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章魚切
Baxter	tsyo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɔ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tja/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藷
Reading #	1/2
No.	17002
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	諸
Old Chinese	/*tja/

Definitions

藷

1. Only used in 藷蔗／𫉄蔗 (zhūzhè, “sugar cane”).

Japanese

Kanji

藷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)、じょ (jo)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: いも (imo, 藷)

Korean

Hanja

藷 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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