葉

See also: 叶, 頁, and 页

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 枼. Note that 枼 means “table, flat”, so connotations of “a flat plant part, a leaf”.

Han character

葉 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿心廿木 (TPTD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱艹枼)

1. leaf, petal
2. page of book
3. era

References

• KangXi: page 1044, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31387
• Dae Jaweon: page 1504, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3243, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8449

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Cantonese

Hanzi

葉 (simplified 叶, Jyutping jip6, sip3, Yale yip6, sip3)

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Japanese

Kanji

葉

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よう (yō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: は (ha)

Noun

葉 (counter 枚, hiragana は, romaji ha)

1. a leaf; a needle; a blade

Coordinate terms

• 枝 (えだ, eda, “branch”)

Compounds

葉脈 (ようみゃく, yōmyaku) 葉緑体 (ようりょくたい, yōryokutai) 葉月 (はづき, hazuki)

葉柄 (ようへい, yōhei) 葉緑素 (ようりょくそ, yōryokuso) 葉片 (ようへん, yōhen)

葉肉 (ようにく, yōniku) 千葉 (Chiba)

See also

• はっぱ

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Korean

Hanja

葉 (hangeul 엽, 섭 (yeop, seop), revised yeop, seop, McCune-Reischauer yŏp, sŏp, Yale yep, sep)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

葉 (simplified 叶, Pinyin yè (ye4), xié (xie2), Wade-Giles yeh⁴, hsieh²)

Compounds

• 葉柄
• 葉公好龍
• 葉黃素
• 葉塊繁殖
• 葉齡
• 葉綠素
• 葉綠體
• 葉落歸根
• 葉落知秋
• 葉脈
• 葉片
• 葉肉
• 葉酸
• 葉芽
• 葉子
• 薄荷葉
• 蘇葉
• 淡竹葉
• 干荷葉
• 艾葉
• 祛病葉
• 枇杷葉
• 合香葉

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Min Nan

Hanzi

葉

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Yap

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Vietnamese

Han character

葉 (diệp, diếp, dợp, dớp, đẹp, giấp, giẹp, nhịp, riếp)