䒩

See also: 莫

Translingual

Han character

䒩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese, 8 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿竹木 (THD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱艹禾)

Derived characters

• 㴕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3193, character 7
• Unihan data for U+44A9

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 禾 (OC *ɡoːl).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		䒩
alternative forms		萂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ / wu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ / wu⁶
    • Yale: wòh / wuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ / wu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ / wu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹/, /wuː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: hwa

Rime
Character	䒩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	戸戈切
Baxter	hwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwa/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑ/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wo4

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 䒩

1. A variety of grass.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 䒩 – see 莫 (“none; nothing; not anything; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 莫).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C11453
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03486-022-3