藪

See also: 籔 and 薮

Translingual

Han character

藪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿中女大 (TLVK), four-corner 4444₈, composition ⿱艹數)

1. marsh, swamp
2. wild country
3. clump of trees or bushes

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1066, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32348
• Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3319, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85EA

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Chinese

trad.		藪
simp.		薮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	*roː, *ro
耬	*roː
僂	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	*roː, *ro
廔	*roː
嘍	*roː, *roːʔ
瞜	*roː, *ro
簍	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜	*roː, *ro
褸	*roː, *roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	*roːʔ, *roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	*roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤	*roːs, *ro
瘻	*roːs, *ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǒu (sou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): teu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): só͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǒu
    • Wade–Giles: sou³
    • Yale: sǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soou
    • Palladius: соу (sou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau²
    • Yale: sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: teu
    • Hakka Romanization System: deu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: deu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /teu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
    • Tâi-lô: sóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: suwX

Rime
Character	藪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇后切
Baxter	suwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/səuX/
Pan Wuyun	/səuX/
Shao Rongfen	/səuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/səwX/
Li Rong	/suX/
Wang Li	/səuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/sə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sloːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8484
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	叜
Old Chinese	/*sloːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藪

1. shallow lake overgrown with wild plants
2. gathering place

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Japanese

Shinjitai	薮
Kyūjitai	藪

Kanji

藪

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 薮)

1. thicket, grove, copse
2. collection

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: やぶ (yabu, 藪)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 藪沢(そうたく) (sōtaku)
• 淵藪(えんそう) (ensō)
• 談藪(だんそう) (dansō)
• 斗藪(とそう) (tosō)
• 林藪(りんそう) (rinsō)

Alternative forms

藪 (yabu): a thicket of silver birch.

Kanji in this term
藪
やぶ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

• 薮, 籔

Etymology

From Old Japanese. Found in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).

Noun

藪(やぶ) • (yabu) 

1. a thicket, grove, copse (as of trees, shrubs, or bamboo)

   Synonym: (thick growth) 茂み (shigemi)

2. Short for 藪医者 (yabu isha): a poor doctor
3. Short for 藪入り (yabuiri): a holiday granted to servants on the 16th day of the first and seventh months
4. Short for 藪睨み (yabunirami): a squint; a misguided thinking or view
5. Short for 藪蕎麦 (yabusoba): a type of soba made from green buckwheat without the endocarp removed; a shop selling soba in this method

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 藪医(やぶい) (yabui)
• 藪(やぶ)医者(いしゃ) (yabu isha)
• 藪犬(ヤブイヌ) (yabuinu)
• 藪(やぶ)入(い)り (yabuiri)
• 藪(やぶ)鶯(うぐいす) (yabu uguisu)
• 藪内(やぶうち) (Yabuuchi)
• 藪(ヤブ)海老根(エビネ) (yabu ebine)
• 藪(ヤブ)蚊(カ), 豹脚蚊(ヤブカ) (yabuka)
• 藪陰(やぶかげ) (yabukage)
• 藪垣(やぶがき) (yabugaki)
• 藪(ヤブ)枯(ガラシ) (yabugarashi)
• 藪(ヤブ)萱草(カンゾウ) (yabu kanzō)
• 藪(ヤブ)螽蟖(キリ) (yabukiri)
• 藪(やぶ)潜(くぐ)り (yabukuguri)
• 藪(やぶ)薬(くす)師(し) (yabu kusushi)
• 藪(やぶ)華鬘(けまん) (yabu keman)
• 藪(ヤブ)柑(コウ)子(ジ) (yabu kōji)
• 藪(やぶ)漕(こ)ぎ (yabukogi)
• 藪雨(ヤブサメ) (yabusame)
• 藪(やぶ)虱(じらみ) (yabujirami)
• 藪(やぶ)雀(すずめ) (yabusuzume)
• 藪(やぶ)蘇鉄(そてつ) (yabu sotetsu)
• 藪(やぶ)蕎麦(そば) (yabusoba)
• 藪(やぶ)畳(だたみ) (yabudatami)
• 藪(ヤブ)タバコ (yabu tabako)
• 藪(やぶ)力(ぢから) (yabujikara)
• 藪(ヤブ)椿(ツバキ) (yabutsubaki)
• 藪(ヤブ)手(デ)毬(マリ) (yabudemari)
• 藪(ヤブ)肉桂(ニッケイ) (yabu nikkei)
• 藪睨(やぶにら)み (yabunirami)
• 藪(ヤブ)人参(ニンジン) (yabu ninjin)
• 藪(やぶ)野(の) (Yabuno)
• 藪(やぶ)の中(なか) (yabu no naka)
• 藪原(やぶはら) (yabuhara)
• 藪蛇(やぶへび) (yabuhebi)
• 藪(ヤブ)苧麻(マオ) (yabu mao)
• 藪巻(やぶまき), 藪(やぶ)巻(ま)き (yabumaki)
• 藪豆(ヤブマメ) (yabumame)
• 藪(ヤブ)茗(ミョウ)荷(ガ) (yabu myōga)
• 藪(やぶ)紫(むらさき) (yabu-murasaki)
• 藪蘭(ヤブラン) (yaburan)
• 草藪(くさやぶ) (kusayabu)
• 竹藪(たけやぶ) (takeyabu), 竹藪(たかやぶ) (takayabu)
• 笹藪(ささやぶ) (sasayabu)
• 野良(のら)藪(やぶ) (norayabu)

Idioms

Idioms

• 藪(やぶ)から棒(ぼう)に (yabu kara bō ni)
• 藪(やぶ)で馬(ま)鍬(ぐわ) (yabu de maguwa)
• 藪(やぶ)に剛(ごう)の者(もの) (yabu ni gō no mono)
• 藪(やぶ)に馬(ま)鍬(ぐわ) (yabu ni maguwa)
• 八(や)幡(わた)の藪(やぶ)知(し)らず (Yawata no yabu shirazu)

Proverbs

• 藪(やぶ)に目(め) (yabu ni me)
• 藪(やぶ)をつついて蛇(へび)を出(だ)す (yabu o tsutsuite hebi o dasu)
• 子(こ)を棄(す)つる藪(やぶ)はあれど身(み)を棄(す)つる藪(やぶ)はなし (ko o sutsuru yabu wa aredo mi o sutsuru yabu wa nashi)

Proper noun

藪(やぶ) • (Yabu) 

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Korean

Hanja

藪 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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