葉

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.3 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Min Nan 6.1 Hanzi 6.1.1 Descendants 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“‘grass’”) + phonetic 枼

[edit] Han character

葉 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿心廿木 (TPTD), four-corner 4490₄)

1. leaf, petal
2. page of book
3. era

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1044, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31387
• Dae Jaweon: page 1504, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3243, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8449

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

葉 (simplified 叶, Yale yip6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

葉 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: よう (yō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: は (ha)

[edit] Compounds

• 葉脈
• 葉緑体
• 葉月

[edit] Noun

葉 (counter 枚, hiragana は, romaji ha)

1. a leaf; a needle; a blade

[edit] See also

• はっぱ

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

葉 (hangeul 엽, 섭, revised yeop, seop, McCune-Reischauer yŏp, sŏp, Yale yep, sep)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

葉 (simplified 叶, pinyin yè (ye4), xié (xie2), Wade-Giles yeh⁴, hsieh²)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

葉

[edit] Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Filipino: Yap

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

葉 (diệp, diếp, dợp, dớp, đẹp, giấp, giẹp, nhịp, riếp)