菌

Translingual

Han character

菌 (radical 140 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿田竹木 (TWHD), four-corner 4460₀)

1. mushroom, fungus, mold, mildew, toadstool, yeast
2. germ, microbe

See also

• 圥

References

• KangXi: page 1037, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31156
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3234, character 9
• Unihan data for U+83CC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

菌 (Yale kwan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

菌 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きん (kin)
• Kun: きのこ (kinoko)

Compounds

• 細菌 (さいきん, saikin, “bacterium, germ”)
• 納豆菌 (なっとうきん, nattō kin, “Bacillus subtilis var. natto”)

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Korean

Hanja

菌 (hangeul 균, revised gyun, McCune-Reischauer kyun, Yale kyun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

菌 (pinyin jùn (jun4), Wade-Giles chün⁴)

Compounds

• 細菌, 细菌
• 霉菌 (méijūn)
• 菌类 (jūnlèi)
• 真菌 (zhēnjūn)
• 羊肚菌 (yángdùjùn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菌 (khuẩn)