薸

Translingual

Han character

薸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿水一火 (TEMF), four-corner 4419₁, composition ⿱艹漂)

1. duckweed

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1063, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32203
• Dae Jaweon: page 1527, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3316, character 3
• Unihan data for U+85B8

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Chinese

trad.		薸
simp. #		薸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
標	*pew, *pewʔ
鏢	*pew, *pʰew
瘭	*pew
幖	*pew
熛	*pew
蔈	*pew
膘	*prew, *pʰewʔ, *bewʔ, *spewʔ
褾	*pewʔ
票	*pʰew
飄	*pʰew, *bew
漂	*pʰew, *pʰews
螵	*pʰew, *bew
瞟	*pʰew, *pʰewʔ
嫖	*pʰew, *pʰews
旚	*pʰew
僄	*pʰew, *pʰews
慓	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
彯	*pʰew, *pʰews
摽	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
翲	*pʰew, *pʰews
嘌	*pʰew
縹	*pʰewʔ
醥	*pʰewʔ
顠	*pʰewʔ, *bewʔ
篻	*pʰewʔ, *mbew
剽	*pʰews, *bew
勡	*pʰews
薸	*bew
瓢	*bew
鰾	*bewʔ
驃	*bews

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piáo (piao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): piu¹ / piu⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phiô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: piáo
    • Wade–Giles: pʻiao²
    • Yale: pyáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyau
    • Palladius: пяо (pjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: piu¹ / piu⁴
    • Yale: pīu / pìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: piu¹ / piu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: piu¹ / piu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːu̯⁵⁵/, /pʰiːu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Hsinchu, Kinmen, Lukang, Magong, Sanxia, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiô
    • Tâi-lô: phiô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiooi
    • IPA (Tainan): /pʰiɤ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kinmen, Lukang): /pʰio²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰio¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: bjiew

Rime
Character	薸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符霄切
Baxter	bjiew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/bjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biaw/
Li Rong	/biɛu/
Wang Li	/bĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	piu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-[p]ew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	piáo
Middle Chinese	‹ bjiew ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[p]ew/
English	duckweed
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	薸
Reading #	1/1
No.	9780
Phonetic component	票
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	瓢
Old Chinese	/*bew/
Notes	見方言

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 薸

1. duckweed

Synonyms

• 浮萍 (fúpíng)
• (Hakka, Min Nan) 薸仔
• (Min Nan) 水薸, 浮薸

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Japanese

Kanji

薸

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ひょう (hyō), びょう (byō)
• Kun: うきぐさ (ukigusa)