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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		芋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù, hū, xū, yú, yǔ (yu⁴, hu¹, xu¹, yu², yu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ, ㄏㄨ, ㄒㄩ, ㄩˊ, ㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: hu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: hsü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁶
    • Yale: wuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ō͘
    • Tâi-lô: ō͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (芋, reconstructed)
Character (芋), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 羽俱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨo/	/i̯u/	/ɣio/	/ɦio/	/ɦuə̆/	/ɣĭu/	/ɣio/
Character (芋), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 王遇切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨoH/	/i̯uH/	/ɣioH/	/ɦioH/	/ɦuə̆H/	/ɣĭuH/	/ɣioH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (芋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
芋								yù								‹ hjuH ›								/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a-s/								taro (Colocasia antiquorum?)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
芋					15712					于					魚					0					于					/*ɢʷa/
芋					15720					于					魚					0					芋					/*ɢʷas/

Compounds

• 芋冰 (yùbīng)
• 芋頭 (yùtóu)
• 芋仔冰 (yùzǎibīng)

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Japanese

Kanji

芋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: う (u)
• Kun: いも (imo)

Compounds

• 里芋 (さといも) (satoimo, “taro (potato)”)

Noun

芋 (hiragana いも, romaji imo)

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

芋 (dụ, vu)

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