菓

Translingual

Han character

菓 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田木 (TWD), composition ⿱艹果)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1037, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31168
• Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 5
• Unihan data for U+83D3

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
裸	*ɡ·roːlʔ
躶	*ɡ·roːlʔ
果	*kloːlʔ
菓	*kloːlʔ
猓	*kloːlʔ
輠	*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
裹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
蜾	*kloːlʔ
惈	*kloːlʔ
粿	*kloːlʔ
窠	*kʰloːl
稞	*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
課	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
髁	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
棵	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
顆	*kʰloːlʔ
堁	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
敤	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
夥	*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
婐	*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
踝	*ɡroːlʔ
祼	*ɡluːlʔ

Graphically 艹 (“grass, plant”) + 果 (“fruit”)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 菓 – see 果 (“fruit; result; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 果).

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Japanese

Kanji

菓

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: くだもの (kudamono, 菓)、かし (kashi)

Compounds

• 菓子(かし) (kashi, “confection, sweets, candy”)
  • 綿(わた)菓子(がし) (watagashi)
  • 和(わ)菓子(がし) (wagashi, “wagashi, Japanese candy”)
  • 洋(よう)菓子(がし) (yōgashi, “Western candy”)

Counter

菓(か) or 菓(counter) • (ka or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|か]]

1. fruit

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Korean

Hanja

菓 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 菓 (quả)

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