茸

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 艹 (“grass”) + 耳 (“ear”) – soft as the downy hair on an (animal’s) ear.

Han character

茸 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿尸十 (TSJ), four-corner 4440₁, composition ⿱艹耳)

1. soft, downy
2. buds, sprouts

References

• KangXi: page 1029, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30918
• Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3200, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8338

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		茸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): róng, rǒng (rong², rong³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄥˊ, ㄖㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung⁴, jung⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yûng
• Min Nan (POJ): jiông / liông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: róng
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: jung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rong
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐʊŋ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: rǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: jung³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: roong
    • IPA ^(key): /ʐʊŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jung⁴, jung⁵
    • Yale: yùhng, yúhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung⁴, jung⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ²¹/, /jʊŋ¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yûng
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yung2
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiông / liông
    • Tâi-lô: jiông / liông
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡ʑiɔŋ²³/, /liɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑiɔŋ¹³/, /liɔŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (茸, reconstructed)
Character (茸), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 鍾 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 而容切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵɨoŋ/	/ȵʑi̯woŋ/	/ȵioŋ/	/ȵioŋ/	/ȵuawŋ/	/ȵʑĭwoŋ/	/ȵʑioŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (茸, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
茸					10854					茸					東					0					茸					/*njoŋ/					說文聰省聲，疑髶省聲

Definitions

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Compounds

• 茸毛
• 茸茸

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

茸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: じょう (jō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru), たけ (take), きのこ (kinoko)

Compounds

• 松茸 (まつたけ, matsutake, “matsutake mushroom”)
• 椎茸 (しいたけ, shiitake, “shiitake mushroom”)

Noun

茸 (hiragana きのこ, katakana キノコ, romaji kinoko)

1. a mushroom; a toadstool

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Korean

Hanja

茸 (yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune-Reischauer yong, Yale yong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茸 (nhung)

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