蔗

Translingual

Han character

蔗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈廿火 (TITF), four-corner 4423₁, composition ⿱艹庶)

Derived characters

• 𣞢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1054, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31794
• Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3283, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8517

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Chinese

trad.		蔗
simp. #		蔗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
褯	*zljaːɡs
遮	*tjaː
蔗	*tjaːɡs
鷓	*tjaːɡs
樜	*tjaːɡs, *hljaɡs
蟅	*tjaːɡs, *tjaːɡ
嗻	*tjaːɡs
鍍	*daː, *daːɡs
度	*daːɡs, *daːɡ
渡	*daːɡs
庶	*hljaɡs
剫	*daːɡ
踱	*daːɡ
喥	*daːɡ
謶	*tjaɡ
席	*ljaːɡ
蓆	*ljaːɡ
墌	*tjaːɡ
摭	*tjaːɡ
蹠	*tjaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhè (zhe⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chià

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhè
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhè
    • Wade–Giles: chê⁴
    • Yale: jè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeh
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ze³
    • Yale: je
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chià
    • Tâi-lô: tsià
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sia²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sia²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyaeH

Rime
Character	蔗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之夜切
Baxter	tsyaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiaH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiaH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiaH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭaH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ze3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tAk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjaːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyæH ›
Old Chinese	/*tAk-s/
English	sugarcane
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	蔗
Reading #	1/1
No.	11896
Phonetic component	庶
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	柘
Old Chinese	/*tjaːɡs/
Notes	招魂作柘

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蔗

1. sugar cane

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Japanese

Kanji

蔗

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sugar cane

Readings

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan’yō-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: さとうきび (satōkibi)

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Korean

Hanja

蔗 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

1. sugar cane

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 蔗 (giá)

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References

• Nom Foundation