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U+6A3A, 樺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A3A

[U+6A39]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6A3B]

Translingual[edit]

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 75, +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一十 (DTMJ), four-corner 44954, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 552, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15497
  • Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1261, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6A3A

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwa (birch) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan གྲོ་ག (gro ga, bark of birch tree).

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (99) (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () II II
Fanqie
Baxter hwae hwaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠua/ /ɦˠuaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚa/ /ɦʷᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣua/ /ɣuaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwaɨ/ /ɦwaɨH/
Li
Rong
/ɣua/ /ɣuaH/
Wang
Li
/ɣwa/ /ɣwaH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwa/ /ɣwaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huá huà
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
waa4 waa6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5310 5317
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷraː/ /*ɡʷraːs/

Definitions[edit]

  1. birch

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. birch
  2. reddish yellow

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
かば
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
 カバノキ属 on Japanese Wikipedia

A shift from kaniwa below.[1]

First appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(かば) or (カバ) (kaba

  1. a birch (plant of genus Betula)
  2. Short for 樺色 (kabairo, reddish yellow).
Usage notes[edit]
  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カバ.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
かんば
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

First attested in the mid-19th century.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(かんば) or (カンバ) (kanba

  1. a birch (plant of genus Betula)
Usage notes[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
かにわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
桜皮

⟨kanipa⟩/kaniɸa//kaniwa/

From Old Japanese (kanipa, sakura, sakura bark), from Ainu カリンパ (karinpa, sakura, sakura bark).[4][5][6]

Found in the Man'yōshū (book 6), completed some time after 759 CE, in sense 1.[2][7] Sense 2 appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.[8]

Compare Sakhalin Ainu カリムバニ (karimba-ni, cherry tree; Prunus pseudocerasus) and カリムバタツ (karimba-tat, Betula Maximowicziana).[9]

Noun[edit]

(かにわ) (kaniwaかには (kanifa)?

  1. (obsolete) Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana) or its bark
  2. (obsolete) monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana) or its bark

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. ^ Frellesvig, Bjarke, Stephen Wright Horn, et al. (eds.) (2023) “Old Japanese kanipa”, in Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese[2]
  5. ^ Vovin (2020)
  6. ^ かには”, in 世界大百科事典 第2版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition)[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  7. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  8. ^ 樺・桜皮”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[4] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  9. ^ John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)[5], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 212

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hwa) (hangeul , revised hwa, McCune–Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

  1. birch

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: hoa

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