蒿

Translingual

Han character

蒿 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜口月 (TYRB), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹高)

1. mugwort, artemisia
2. give off

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31634
• Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3267, character 15
• Unihan data for U+84BF

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Chinese

trad.		蒿
simp. #		蒿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒿
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	*kaːw, *kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞	*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗	*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hāo (hao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ho͘ / ho / o

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hao
    • Wade–Giles: hao¹
    • Yale: hāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hau
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou¹
    • Yale: hōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho͘
    • Tâi-lô: hoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho
    • Tâi-lô: ho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoy
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ho⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
    • Tâi-lô: o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/

Note:

• ho͘/ho - literary;
• o - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: xaw

Rime
Character	蒿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼毛切
Baxter	xaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/haw/
Li Rong	/xɑu/
Wang Li	/xɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蒿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hāo
Middle Chinese	‹ xaw ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁaw/
English	Artemisia
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蒿
Reading #	1/1
No.	3744
Phonetic component	高
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蒿
Old Chinese	/*qʰaːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蒿

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Japanese

Kanji

蒿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: よもぎ (yomogi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蒿雀(あおじ) (aoji)
• 蒿矢(こうし) (kōshi)
• 蒿里(こうり) (kōri)
• 蒿廬(こうろ) (kōro)
• 蒿艾(こうがい) (kōgai)
• 蒿藜(こうれい) (kōrei)
• 伴蒿蹊(ばんこうけい) (bankōkei)
• 黄蒿(こうこう) (kōkō)
• 蓬蒿(ほうこう) (hōkō)
• 艾蒿(がいこう) (gaikō)

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Korean

Hanja

蒿 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒿 (hao, khao)

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