Translingual[edit]
Han character[edit]
芽 (radical 140, 艸+4 in Chinese, 艸+5 in Japanese, 7 strokes in Chinese, 8 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 廿一女竹 (TMVH), four-corner 44241, composition ⿱艹牙)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 1021, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30860
- Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3179, character 13
- Unihan data for U+82BD
Chinese[edit]
Glyph origin[edit]
| Characters in the same phonetic series (牙) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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Old Chinese
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| 邪
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*ljaː, *laː
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| 衺
|
*ljaː
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| 牙
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*ŋraː
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| 芽
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*ŋraː
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| 齖
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*ŋraː, *ŋraːs
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| 呀
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*ŋraː, *hŋraː
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| 枒
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*ŋraː, *ŋraːs
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| 雅
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*ŋraːʔ
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| 厊
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*ŋraːʔ
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| 庌
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*ŋraːʔ
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| 訝
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*ŋraːs
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| 迓
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*ŋraːs
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| 砑
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*ŋraːs
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| 犽
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*ŋraːs
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| 疨
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*hŋraː
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| 岈
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*hŋraː
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| 谺
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*hŋraː
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| 颬
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*hŋraː
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| 鴉
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*qraː
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| 釾
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*laː
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraː): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː) – an aspect of plants.
Pronunciation[edit]
Note:
- gê/gêe - vernacular;
- gâ - literary.
| Rime
|
| Character
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芽
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| Initial (聲)
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疑 (31)
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| Final (韻)
|
麻 (98)
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| Tone (調)
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Level (Ø)
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| Openness (開合)
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Open
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| Division (等)
|
II
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| Fanqie
|
五加切
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| Reconstructions
|
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
|
/ŋˠa/
|
Pan
Wuyun
|
/ŋᵚa/
|
Shao
Rongfen
|
/ŋa/
|
Edwin
Pulleyblank
|
/ŋaɨ/
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Li
Rong
|
/ŋa/
|
Wang
Li
|
/ŋa/
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Bernard
Karlgren
|
/ŋa/
|
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
|
yá
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| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
|
芽
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
yá
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ ngæ ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*m-ɢˤ<r>a/
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| English
|
shoot, sprout
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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芽
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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14178
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Phonetic
component
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牙
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Rime
group
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
牙
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ŋraː/
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Definitions[edit]
芽
- bud, shoot, sprout
Compounds[edit]
Japanese[edit]
芽
(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)
- bud, sprout, shoot
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
芽 (hiragana め, rōmaji me)
- bud, sprout, shoot
References[edit]
芽 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
芽 (nha)
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