萵

See also: 莴

萵 U+8435, 萵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8435 ← 萴 [U+8434] CJK Unified Ideographs 萶 → [U+8436]

Translingual

Han character

萵 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月口 (TBBR), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹咼)

Derived characters

• 𨗲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1042, character 47
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31351
• Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3234, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8435

Chinese

trad.		萵
simp.		莴
2nd round simp.		呙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qloːl): semantic 艹 (“herbage”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oe / e / er / o / meh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wō
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wo
    • Wade–Giles: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
    • Palladius: во (vo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan, Taichung, Zhangzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oe
    • Tâi-lô: ue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oef
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou, Yilan): /ue⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e
    • Tâi-lô: e
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ef
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /e⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: er
    • Tâi-lô: er
    • Sinological IPA (Kinmen): /ə⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /ə³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
    • Tâi-lô: o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oy
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh
    • Tâi-lô: meh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: meq
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽʔ³²/

Note:

• oe/e/er - vernacular;
• o - literary.

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4380
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	倭
Old Chinese	/*qloːl/

Definitions

萵

1. lettuce

Compounds

• 牛母萵草 / 牛母莴草
• 白萵 / 白莴
• 紅萵 / 红莴
• 苳萵 / 苳莴
• 苳萵菜 / 苳莴菜
• 茼萵 / 茼莴
• 茼萵菜 / 茼莴菜
• 萵仔菜 / 莴仔菜
• 萵筍 / 莴笋 (wōsǔn)
• 萵苣 / 莴苣 (wōjù)
• 萵菜 / 莴菜
• 萵香 / 莴香

Japanese

Kanji

萵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: わ (wa)
• Kan-on: わ (wa)

Korean

Hanja

萵 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萵: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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