茨

Translingual

Han character

茨 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈一人 (TIMO), 廿一一人 (TMMO), four-corner 4418₂)

1. caltrop

Synonyms

• Tribulus terrestris

References

• KangXi: page 1028, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30896
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3208, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8328

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Cantonese

Hanzi

茨 (Yale chi4)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /umara/

Noun

茨 (hiragana うまら, romaji umara)

1. a shrub with thorns
   • 794: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 47)

     翹棘 翹尅 音交 訓久波多川 棘 音里 訓宇末良

2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Etymology 2

umara > ubara. Medial /m/ looses nasality becoming /b/.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ubara/

Noun

茨 (hiragana うばら, romaji ubara)

1. any shrub with thorns
2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Etymology 3

umara > ubara > ibara.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ibara/

Noun

茨 (hiragana いばら, romaji ibara)

1. a shrub with thorns
2. thorn
3. a thorny flower of the Rosa genus; rose

Derived terms

• 薔薇 (bara)

Kanji

茨 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Alternative forms

• 荊
• 棘

Readings

• On: し (shi), じ (ji)
• Kun: いばら (ibara), くさぶき (kusabuki), かや (kaya)

References

• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.

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Korean

Hanja

茨 (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

茨 (pinyin cí (ci2), hòu (hou4), Wade-Giles tz'u², hou⁴)

Compounds

• 茨菰 (cígū)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茨 (tỳ, tì)