荳

See also: 豆

荳 U+8373, 荳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8373 ← 荲 [U+8372] CJK Unified Ideographs 荴 → [U+8374]

Translingual

Han character

荳 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一口廿 (TMRT), four-corner 4410₈, composition ⿱艹豆)

Derived characters

• 𠻼, 𰕢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1032, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30989
• Dae Jaweon: page 1491, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3215, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8373

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
侸	*toː
剅	*toː, *roː
郖	*toː, *doːs
鬪	*toːs
鋀	*tʰoː
頭	*doː
豆	*doːs
逗	*doːs, *dos
痘	*doːs
梪	*doːs
脰	*doːs
荳	*doːs
浢	*doːs
餖	*doːs
毭	*doːs
豎	*djoʔ
裋	*djoʔ
短	*toːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doːs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 豆 (OC *doːs, “bean”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 荳 – see 豆 (“bean; pea”). (This character is a variant form of 豆).

Compounds

• 紅荳／红豆 (hóngdòu)
• 荳芽菜／豆芽菜
• 荳蔻／豆蔻 (dòukòu)
• 荳蔻年華／豆蔻年华 (dòukòuniánhuá)

 

Japanese

Kanji

荳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. bean
2. nutmeg

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō); ず (zu)
• Kun: まめ (mame)

Compounds

• 肉荳蒄

Korean

Hanja

荳 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

1. beans, peas
2. bean-shaped

Vietnamese

Han character

荳: Hán Nôm readings: đậu

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