芝

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

芝 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈弓人 (TINO), four-corner 4430₇, composition ⿱艹之)

1. sesame
2. a purplish or brown mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) used in traditional Asian medicine and believed to have miraculous powers
3. 'a divine and felicitous plant' (Karlgren)

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1019, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30699
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3176, character 5
• Unihan data for U+829D

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

芝 (Yale ji1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

芝 (hiragana しば, romaji shiba)

1. grass, turf

[edit] Kanji

芝 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: しば (shiba)

[edit] Compounds

• 芝居

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

芝 (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

芝 (pinyin zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles chih¹)

[edit] Compounds

• 靈芝