草芥

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Chinese[edit]

 
grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
Brassica juncea
trad. (草芥)
simp. #(草芥)

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (14) (28)
Final () (89) (33)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Baxter tshawX keajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kˠɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰawX/ /kəɨjH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kɛiH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kăiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cǎo jiè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cou2 gaai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cǎo jiè
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshawX › ‹ kɛjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/ /*kˁr[e][t]-s/
English grass, plants mustard plant

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 16547 6522
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰuːʔ/ /*kreːds/
Notes

Noun[edit]

草芥

  1. (literary, figurative) something small and insignificant; trifle

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (草芥):
  • Japanese: 草芥(そうかい) (sōkai)

Japanese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
そう
Grade: 1
かい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(そう)(かい) (sōkaiさうかい (saukai)?

  1. weed and trash; trash

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
そう
Grade: 1
がい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(そう)(がい) (sōgaiさうがい (saugai)?

  1. Alternative form of 草芥 (sōkai): weed and trash; trash

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN