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藷蔗

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Chinese

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sugar cane sugar cane
trad. (藷蔗)
simp. (𫉄蔗) 𫉄
alternative forms 諸柘诸柘
諸蔗诸蔗

Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Likely from a non-Chinese substrate (tho neither PAN *təbuS nor PAA *klmiəʔ might've been the source.”

Attested earliest in Sima Xiangru's 子虛(之)賦 "Rhapsody of Master Empty" (translation based on van Ess, 2016, 2020[1]), reproduced in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian:

射干穹窮昌蒲江離麋蕪諸蔗猼且 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
射干穹穷昌蒲江离麋芜诸蔗猼且 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
Qí dōng zé yǒu huì pǔ (héng) lán, zhǐ ruò shègān, qióngqióng chāngpú, jiānglí míwú, zhūzhè bóqiě. [Pinyin]
In the east (of a mountain in Yunmeng Marsh) lies a cymbidium garden with asarum and orchid, angelica, pollia, and blackberry lily, Szechuan lovage and sweet flag, Szechuan lovage's sprouts, sugar cane and myoga ginger.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (23) (23)
Final () (22) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyo tsyaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨʌ/ /t͡ɕiaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɔ/ /t͡ɕiaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiɔ/ /t͡ɕiaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cɨə̆/ /ciaH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiɔ/ /t͡ɕiaH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭo/ /t͡ɕĭaH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯wo/ /t͡ɕi̯aH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhū zhè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zyu1 ze3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhè
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyæH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tAk-s/
English sugarcane

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 17002 11896
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tja/ /*tjaːɡs/
Notes

Noun

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藷蔗

  1. (archaic) sugar cane

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Sima Qian (2016, 2020) “Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, Memoir 57”, in Hans van Ess, transl., William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume X, Indiana: Indiana University Press, page 90