蘖

See also: 櫱 and 蘗

蘖 U+8616, 蘖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8616 ← 蘕 [U+8615] CJK Unified Ideographs 蘗 → [U+8617]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In mainland China, Hong Kong (based on HKSCS 2016), Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the bottom component is written 木 which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In Taiwan (based on its standardized form of characters), the bottom component is written 𣎳 instead.

Han character

蘖 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+17, 21 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 20 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿十木 (TJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱薛木(GHJK) or ⿱薛𣎳(T))

Derived characters

• 𡿗, 𮁛

Related characters

• 櫱 (Orthodox traditional form of 蘖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1069, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32478
• Dae Jaweon: page 1535, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3331, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8616

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
躠	*sŋaːd
嶭	*ŋaːd, *ŋeːd
櫱	*ŋaːd, *ŋred
薛	*sŋed
辥	*sŋed
孼	*ŋred
蘖	*ŋred
蠥	*ŋred
孽	*ŋred
糵	*ŋred

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 蘖 – see 櫱 (“sprout growing from a tree stump; ; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 櫱).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

This character is the preferred form used in mainland China.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01897-008

Japanese

Kanji

蘖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げつ (getsu)
• Kun: ひこばえ (hikobae)

Noun

蘖(ひこばえ) • (hikobae) 

1. sprouts from the stump of a tree

Korean

Hanja

蘖 • (eol) (hangeul 얼, revised eol, McCune–Reischauer ŏl, Yale el)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蘖: Hán Nôm readings: nghẹt, nghệt, nghiệt

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References

• Nom Foundation