葎

Translingual

Han character

葎 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人手 (THOQ), four-corner 4425₇, composition ⿱艹律)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1044, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1505, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3252, character 4
• Unihan data for U+844E

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Chinese

trad.		葎
simp. #		葎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
筆	*prud
潷	*prud
硉	*ruːd
律	*rud
葎	*b·rud
聿	*b·lud
銉	*lud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǜ (lü⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leot⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǜ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyù
    • Wade–Giles: lü⁴
    • Yale: lyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuh
    • Palladius: люй (ljuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leot⁶
    • Yale: leuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loet⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêd⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: lwit

Rime
Character	葎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	呂卹切
Baxter	lwit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwit̚/
Li Rong	/liuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/lĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǜ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leot6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·rud/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	葎
Reading #	1/1
No.	15979
Phonetic component	聿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	律
Old Chinese	/*b·rud/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 葎

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Japanese

Kanji

葎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: りち (richi)
• Kan-on: りつ (ritsu)
• Kun: むぐら (mugura, 葎); うぐら (ugura, 葎); もぐら (mogura, 葎)
• Nanori: つ (tsu)

Etymology 1

花八重葎 (hana yae mugura): the “flowering eight-layer mugura”, field madder.	磯馴葎 (sonare mugura): the “pebble-accustomed mugura”, .
金葎 (kana mugura): the “money mugura”, the Japanese hop plant.	刺無葎 (toge nashi mugura): the “thornless mugura”, false baby's breath.

Kanji in this term
葎
むぐら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese. Probably the eastern Japanese form. Compare the alternation in ugura and mugura readings in the etymology of 土竜.

May ultimately derive from obsolete verb 剥る (mukuru, “to peel off, to tear off”), perhaps related to the way that weeds are often removed by tearing the plant out.

Noun

葎(むぐら) • (mugura) 

1. any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4270:
     , text here:

     牟具良波布 / 伊也之伎屋戸母 / 大皇之 / 座牟等知者 / 玉之可麻思乎

     葎延ふ / 賎しき宿も / 大君の / 座さむと知らば / 玉敷かましを

     むぐら はふ / いやしき やど も / おほきみ の / まさむ と しらば / たま しかまし を

     Mugura hafu / iyashiki yado mo / ohokimi no / masamu to shiraba / tama shikamashi wo

     Even a shabby house surrounded by weed thickets would be as if strewn with jewels if I knew you were there

Usage notes

The plants called by this name are many and varied, and include plants such as madder, cleaver, and hops.

The reading mugura appears to be the most common.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ムグラ.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 葎(むぐら)が門(かど) (mugura ga kado): a gate overgrown with viny weeds
• 葎(むぐら)の門(かど) (mugura no kado): a gate overgrown with viny weeds
• 葎(むぐら)の宿(やど) (mugura no yado): a house overgrown with viny weeds
• 葎生(むぐらふ) (mugurafu): a dense growth of viny weeds

• 大双葉葎(おおふたばむぐら) (ōfutaba mugura): literally “big twin-leaf mugura”, or poorjoe
• 金葎(かなむぐら) (kana mugura), 葎草(かなむぐら) (kana mugura): literally “money mugura”, , : the Japanese hop plant
• 磯馴葎(そなれむぐら) (sonare mugura): literally “pebble-accustomed mugura”,
• 刺無葎(とげなしむぐら) (togenashi mugura): literally “thornless mugura”, , false baby's breath or hedge bedstraw
• 花八重葎(はなやえむぐら) (hana yae mugura): literally “flowering eight-layer mugura”, or field madder
• 双葉葎(ふたばむぐら) (futaba mugura): literally “twin-leaf mugura”,
• 八重葎(やえむぐら) (yae mugura): literally “eight-layer mugura”, , the false cleaver or Marin County bedstraw
• 四葉葎(よつばむぐら) (yotsuba mugura): literally “four-leaf mugura”,

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
葎
うぐら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese. Probably the western Japanese form. Compare the alternation in ugura and mugura readings in the etymology of 土竜.

Noun

葎(うぐら) • (ugura) 

1. any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
葎
もぐら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Probably an alteration or dialectal variant of mugura above. Appears with this reading in the 本草和名 (Honzō Wamyō, “Japanese Names of the Real Herbs”), a pharmacopoeia written in 923. Still listed as an alternate reading in modern dictionaries.

Noun

葎(もぐら) • (mogura) 

1. Any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds

References

• Fukane no Sukehito (c. 901–923) Maruyama Yumiko, Wu Qian, editors, Honzō Wamyō: Eiin, Honkoku to Kenkyū) (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin, published 2021, →ISBN.