葛

Translingual

Han character

葛 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日心女 (TAPV), four-corner 4472₇, composition ⿱艹曷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1045, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31420
• Dae Jaweon: page 1506, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3248, character 3
• Unihan data for U+845B

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Chinese

trad.		葛
simp. #		葛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 葛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kaːd) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 葛

1. kudzu (Pueraria lobata)
2. poplin; hemp cloth
3. (～國) State of Ge (a small state in modern Henan province during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties)
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

葛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: かち (kachi)
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: くず (kuzu, 葛, Jōyō); かずら (kazura, 葛)^{←かづら (kadura, 葛, historical)}; つづら (tsuzura, 葛)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
葛
かずら Grade: S
kun'yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

葛(かずら) • (kazura) ^{←かづら (kadura)?}

1. creeper, creeping plant

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
葛
くず Grade: S
kun'yomi

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Noun

葛(くず) or 葛(クズ) • (kuzu) 

1. kudzu, Japanese arrowroot (Pueraria montana)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
葛
つづら Grade: S
kun'yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

葛(つづら) or 葛(ツヅラ) • (tsuzura) 

1. Alternative spelling of 大葛藤 (“Sinomenium acutum​”)
2. Alternative spelling of 葛籠 (“wicker basket”)

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Korean

Hanja

葛 • (gal)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 갈 (revised: gal, McCune–Reischauer: kal, Yale: kal)
  • Name (hangeul): 칡
    

1. arrowroot, kudzu

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 葛 (cát, nhật)

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