蘗

See also: 檘 and 檗

蘗 U+8617, 蘗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8617 ← 蘖 [U+8616] CJK Unified Ideographs 蘘 → [U+8618]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In Taiwan and Hong Kong (based on the Big5 character form), the bottom component is written 𣎳 instead of 木.

Han character

蘗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+17, 21 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 20 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿尸十木 (TSJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱薜木(GJK) or ⿱薜𣎳(HT))

Related characters

• 檗 (Preferred form used in mainland China)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1069, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32479
• Dae Jaweon: page 1535, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3333, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8617

Chinese

Etymology 1

This section refers to ⿱薜𣎳 glyph.

trad.		蘗
simp. #		蘗
alternative forms		⿱⻀檗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bò (bo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³, paak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bò
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bò
    • Wade–Giles: po⁴
    • Yale: bwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: boh
    • Palladius: бо (bo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak³, paak³
    • Yale: baak, paak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸, paak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag³, pag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³/, /pʰaːk̚³/

Note:

• baak3 - colloquial;
• paak3 - variant.

Definitions

蘗

1. (chiefly Taiwan) Used in 黃蘗／黄蘗 and related compounds

   alt. forms: 檗 (mainland China)

Compounds

• 根蘗繁殖
• 蘗米
• 飲冰茹蘗／饮冰茹蘗
• 飲冰食蘗／饮冰食蘗
• 黃蘗／黄蘗 (huángbò)
• 齧蘗吞針／啮蘗吞针

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03599
• “蘗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Etymology 2

This section refers to ⿱薜木 glyph.

Glyph origin

Found in the historical Jiyun 《集韻 (Jíyùn)》 dictionary published during the Song dynasty.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 蘗 – see 薜 (“type of grass ; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 薜).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03573-002-1#26

Japanese

Kanji

蘗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. a tree, from the Rutaceae (citrus) family

Readings

• On (unclassified): はく (haku); びゃく (byaku)
• Kun: きわだ (kiwada)

Korean

Hanja

蘗 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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