蕪

See also: 芜

蕪 U+856A, 蕪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-856A ← 蕩 [U+8569] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕫 → [U+856B]

Translingual

Han character

蕪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿人廿火 (TOTF), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿱艹無)

Derived characters

• 𦢲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1059, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32004
• Dae Jaweon: page 1522, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3291, character 8
• Unihan data for U+856A

Chinese

trad.		蕪
simp.		芜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蕪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
墲	*m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	*hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	*ma, *maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	*ma, *maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wú (wu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bû

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    • Wade–Giles: wu²
    • Yale: wú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bû
    • Tâi-lô: bû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu²³/

---

• Middle Chinese: mju

Rime
Character	蕪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武夫切
Baxter	mju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/mio/
Shao Rongfen	/mio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆/
Li Rong	/mio/
Wang Li	/mĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ma/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蕪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú
Middle Chinese	‹ mju ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)a/
English	overgrown with weeds
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蕪
Reading #	1/1
No.	13120
Phonetic component	無
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	無
Old Chinese	/*ma/

Definitions

蕪 (literary or in compounds)

1. full of weed; overgrown with weed [from Old Chinese]

   • 朝甚除，田甚蕪，倉甚虛。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     朝甚除，田甚芜，仓甚虚。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tao Te Ching, 4^th century BCE

     Cháo shèn chú, tián shèn wú, cāng shèn xū. [Pinyin]

     The court is very well-kept, but the fields are much overgrown with weed and the granaries are truly empty.

   • 曾不知夏之為丘兮，孰兩東門之可蕪？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     曾不知夏之为丘兮，孰两东门之可芜？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Céng bù zhī xià zhī wèi qiū xī, shú liǎng dōng mén zhī kě wú? [Pinyin]

     Who would ever have known that the royal mounds would turn into hillocks, and that the two eastern gates could become overgrown with weed?

2. disused cropland; thickly-grown grassland; weed-choked land [from Old Chinese]
3. (figurative) of a turgid literary style [from Middle Chinese]

Compounds

• 刪蕪就簡／删芜就简
• 去蕪存菁／去芜存菁 (qùwúcúnjīng)
• 平蕪／平芜
• 榛蕪／榛芜
• 疏蕪／疏芜
• 綠蕪／绿芜
• 繁蕪／繁芜
• 舉要刪蕪／举要删芜
• 荒蕪／荒芜 (huāngwú)
• 蕪俚／芜俚
• 蕪劣／芜劣
• 蕪淺／芜浅
• 蕪湖／芜湖 (Wúhú)
• 蕪穢／芜秽 (wúhuì)
• 蕪累／芜累
• 蕪菁／芜菁 (wújīng)
• 蕃蕪／蕃芜
• 蕪雜／芜杂 (wúzá)
• 蕪駁／芜驳
• 薞蕪／薞芜 (sūnwú)
• 蘅蕪／蘅芜
• 蘼蕪／蘼芜 (míwú)
• 青蕪／青芜

 

Japanese

Kanji

蕪

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. turnip

Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: かぶ (kabu, 蕪); かぶら (kabura, 蕪); あれる (areru, 蕪れる)

Compounds

Compounds

• 赤蕪(あかかぶ) (akakabu)
• 蕪菁(かぶら) (kabura): turnip
• 蕪菜(かぶな) (kabuna), 蕪菜(かぶらな) (kaburana): turnip
• 蕪鮨(かぶらずし) (kaburazushi)
• 蕪菜(かぶらな) (kaburana)
• 蕪無(かぶらなし) (kaburanashi)
• 蕪引(かぶらひ)き (kaburahiki)
• 蕪骨(かぶらぼね) (kaburabone)
• 蕪蒸(かぶらむ)し (kaburamushi)
• 菊花蕪(きくかかぶ) (kikukakabu)
• 荒蕪(こうぶ) (kōbu)
• 小蕪(こかぶ) (kokabu), 小蕪菁(こかぶ) (kokabu)
• 聖護院蕪菁(しょうごいんかぶら) (shōgoinkabura)
• スウェーデン蕪(かぶ) (suwēdenkabu)
• 天王寺蕪(てんのうじかぶら) (tennōjikabura)
• 繁蕪(はんぶ) (hanbu)
• 蕪穢(ぶあい) (buai)
• 蕪稿(ぶこう) (bukō)
• 蕪雑(ぶざつ) (buzatsu)
• 蕪辞(ぶじ) (buji)
• 蕪陋(ぶろう) (burō)
• 平蕪(へいぶ) (heibu)
• 和布蕪(めかぶ) (mekabu)
• 和布蕪(めかぶら) (mekabura)
• 緑蕪(りょくぶ) (ryokubu): lush green grass or weeds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蕪
かぶ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かぶ [kàbú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

蕪(かぶ) • (kabu) 

1. turnip

Synonyms

• 蕪菜(かぶな) (kabuna), 菘(すずな) (suzuna)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蕪
かぶら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

• 蕪菁

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かぶら [kàbúrá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

Noun

蕪(かぶら) • (kabura) 

1. turnip

Korean

Hanja

蕪 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

蕪: Hán Nôm readings: vu

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.