荑

Translingual

Han character

荑 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿大弓 (TKN), four-corner 4453₂, composition ⿱艹夷)

1. tender bud
2. sprouts
3. tares

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30952
• Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3202, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8351

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Chinese

trad.		荑
simp. #		荑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荑
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
桋	*l'iːl, *lil
荑	*l'iːl, *lil
銕	*l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
鴺	*l'iːl, *lil
鮧	*l'iːl, *lil
洟	*l̥ʰiːls, *lil
羠	*ljilʔ, *lil
咦	*hril
夷	*lil
姨	*lil
痍	*lil
峓	*lil
恞	*lil
眱	*lil
蛦	*lil
胰	*lil, *lɯ
跠	*lil

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tí, yí (ti², yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˊ, ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴ / tai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tí
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tí
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi²
    • Yale: tí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyi
    • Palladius: ти (ti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴ / tai⁴
    • Yale: yìh / tàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴ / tai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴ / tei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/, /tʰɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yij, dej

Rime
Character	荑	荑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	以脂切	杜奚切
Baxter	yij	dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪ/	/dei/
Pan Wuyun	/ji/	/dei/
Shao Rongfen	/jɪ/	/dɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ji/	/dɛj/
Li Rong	/i/	/dei/
Wang Li	/ji/	/diei/
Bernard Karlgren	/i/	/dʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí	tí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4	tai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːl/, /*lil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	荑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tí
Middle Chinese	‹ dej ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁəj/
English	young shoot
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	荑	荑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14855	14868
Phonetic component	夷	夷
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	嗁	姨
Old Chinese	/*l'iːl/	/*lil/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 荑

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Japanese

Kanji

荑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sprouts
2. tares

Readings

• Go-on: い (i); だい (dai)
• Kan-on: い (i); てい (tei)
• Kun: つばな (tsubana, 荑)

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Korean

Hanja

荑 • (je, i) (hangeul 제, 이, revised je, i, McCune–Reischauer che, i, Yale cey, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 荑 (di, đề)

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Readings

• Nôm: di, đề, rì

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999