菘

菘 U+83D8, 菘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83D8 ← 菗 [U+83D7] CJK Unified Ideographs 菙 → [U+83D9]

Translingual

Han character

菘 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿木金戈 (TDCI), four-corner 4493₂, composition ⿱艹松)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1038, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31177
• Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3231, character 1
• Unihan data for U+83D8

Chinese

trad.		菘
simp. #		菘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
慃	*qroːŋʔ
袞	*kluːnʔ
蔉	*kluːnʔ
滾	*kluːnʔ
忩	*sʰloːŋ
鬆	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公	*kloːŋ
蚣	*kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁	*qloːŋ
螉	*qloːŋ
蓊	*qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡	*qloːŋ
滃	*qloːŋʔ
暡	*qloːŋʔ
勜	*qloːŋʔ
塕	*qloːŋʔ
瓮	*qloːŋs
崧	*sqʰluŋ
菘	*sqʰluŋ
硹	*sqʰluŋ
淞	*sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙	*sqʰloŋ
倯	*sqʰloŋ
松	*sɢloŋ
訟	*sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌	*sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪	*kljoŋ
彸	*kljoŋ
衳	*kljoŋ
伀	*kljoŋ
妐	*kljoŋ
炂	*kljoŋ
鈆	*kljoŋ, *lon

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōng (song¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: song
    • Wade–Giles: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: song
    • Palladius: сун (sun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjuwng

Rime
Character	菘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息弓切
Baxter	sjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/siuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/siuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/suwŋ/
Li Rong	/siuŋ/
Wang Li	/sĭuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰluŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	菘
Reading #	1/1
No.	4106
Phonetic component	公
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	嵩
Old Chinese	/*sqʰluŋ/

Definitions

菘

1. synonym of 白菜 (báicài)

Compounds

• 紫菘 (Zǐsōng)
• 臭菘 (chòusōng)
• 菘菜

Japanese

Kanji

菘

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: すう (sū)^{←すう (suu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しゆう (syuu, historical)}
• Kun: すずな (suzuna, 菘)、とうな (tōna, 菘)

Compounds

• 菘(しゅう)圃(ほ) (shūho)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
菘
すずな Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
鈴菜

Compound of 鈴 (suzu, “bell”) +‎ 菜 (na, “greens”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) すずな [sùzúná] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sɨzɨna̠]

Noun

菘(すずな) • (suzuna) ^{←すずな (suzuna)?}

1. turnip

   Hypernym: 春の七草

   Coordinate terms: 芹, 薺, 御形, 繁縷, 仏の座, 菘, 蘿蔔

Synonyms

• 蕪(かぶ) (kabu), 蕪(かぶ)菜(な) (kabuna)

References

• “^▲菘”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

菘 • (sung) (hangeul 숭, revised sung, McCune–Reischauer sung, Yale swung)

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