芽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 牙 – an aspect of plants.

Han character

芽 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一女竹 (TMVH), four-corner 4424₁)

1. bud, sprout, shoot

See also

• 芋

References

• KangXi: page 1021, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30860
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3179, character 13
• Unihan data for U+82BD

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Cantonese

bud, sprout, shoot

形聲。從艸,牙聲。本義:尚未發育成長的枝、葉或花的雛體

倉頡碼：TMVH / 廿一女竹 部首：艸 + 4 劃 粵語拼音：ngaa4 漢語拼音：ya2

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Japanese

Kanji

芽 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: が (ga), げ (ge)
• Kun: め (me), めぐむ (megumu)

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Korean

Hanja

芽 (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

芽 (pinyin fú (fu2), fù (fu4), yá (ya2), Wade-Giles fu², fu⁴, ya²)

Compounds

• 芽菜 (soybean sprout)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芽 (nha)