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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

茸 (Yale yung4)

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Japanese

Noun

茸 (hiragana きのこ, romaji kinoko)

1. a mushroom; a toadstool

Alternative forms

• キノコ

Kanji

茸

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”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

茸 (pinyin róng (rong2), rǒng (rong3), Wade-Giles jung², jung³)

Compounds

• 茸毛
• 茸茸

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Middle Chinese

Han character

茸 (njiong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茸 (nhung)