芋

Translingual

Han character

芋 (radical 140 艸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一木 (TMD), X廿一木 (XTMD), four-corner 4440₁, composition ⿱艹于)

1. taro

See also

• 芽

References

• KangXi: page 1018, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30670
• Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3174, character 3
• Unihan data for U+828B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

芋 (Yale wu6)

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Japanese

Kanji

芋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: う (u)
• Kun: いも (imo)

Compounds

• 里芋 (satoimo)

Noun

芋 (hiragana いも, romaji imo)

1. a potato; a sweet potato; a taro; a yam

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Korean

Hanja

芋 (hangeul 우, 후, revised u, hu, McCune-Reischauer u, hu, Yale wu, hwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

芋 (pinyin hū (hu1), xū (xu1), yú (yu2), yǔ (yu3), yù (yu4), Wade-Giles hu¹, hsü¹, yü², yü³, yü⁴)

Compounds

• 芋頭

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Vietnamese

Han character

芋 (dụ, vu)