蕨

蕨 U+8568, 蕨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8568 ← 蕧 [U+8567] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕩 → [U+8569]

Translingual

Han character

蕨 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿一廿人 (TMTO), four-corner 4428₂, composition ⿱艹厥)

1. Pteris aquilina (common bracken)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32001
• Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3289, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8568

Chinese

trad.		蕨
simp. #		蕨
alternative forms		𧂱

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鱖	*krods, *kod
蹶	*krods, *krod, *kod
厥	*kod, *kud
欮	*kod
蕨	*kod
劂	*kod
瘚	*kod
蟨	*kod
蟩	*kod
橜	*kod, *ɡod
撅	*kod, *ɡod
闕	*kʰod
橛	*ɡod
鷢	*ɡod
蹷	*ɡod
憠	*ɡod

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan སྐྱས་མ (skyas ma) ~ སྐྱེས་མ (skyes ma, “fern”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³
    • Yale: kyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kjwot

Rime
Character	蕨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	元 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居月切
Baxter	kjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuat̚/
Li Rong	/kiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/kĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.kot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蕨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.kot/
English	bracken (a kind of edible fern)
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	蕨
Reading #	1/1
No.	7231
Phonetic component	欮
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	厥
Old Chinese	/*kod/

Definitions

蕨

1. bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)

   • 陟彼南山、言采其蕨。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhì bǐ nánshān, yán cǎi qí jué. [Pinyin]

     I ascended that hill in the south, and gathered the brackens.

See also

• 薇 (wēi, “royal fern”)

Compounds

• 松葉蕨／松叶蕨
• 槲蕨
• 水蕨
• 烏毛蕨／乌毛蕨
• 蕨菜 (juécài)
• 蕨類／蕨类 (juélèi)
• 蕨類植物／蕨类植物
• 薇蕨
• 藜蕨
• 鐵線蕨／铁线蕨

 

Descendants

• → Proto-Tai: *kuːtᴰ
  • Thai: กูด (gùut)

Japanese

Kanji

蕨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: わらび (warabi, 蕨)

Noun

蕨(わらび) or 蕨(ワラビ) • (warabi) 

1. bracken (any of several coarse ferns)

Proper noun

蕨(わらび) • (Warabi) 

1. Warabi (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)

Korean

Hanja

蕨 • (gwol) (hangeul 궐, revised gwol, McCune–Reischauer kwŏl, Yale kwel)

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