櫱

See also: 蘖

櫱 U+6AF1, 櫱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AF1 ← 櫰 [U+6AF0] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫲 → [U+6AF2]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In mainland China, Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the upper left component is written 屮 while the bottom component is written 木 which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper left component is written 山 while the bottom component is written 𣎳.

Han character

櫱 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山十木 (UJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱辥木(GJK) or ⿱⿰𡶫辛𣎳(HT))

Related characters

• 蘖 (Preferred form in mainland China)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 561, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15863
• Dae Jaweon: page 950, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1318, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6AF1

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Chinese

trad.		櫱/蘖
simp.		蘖
2nd round simp.		⿱艹乜
alternative forms		𣎴 ancient form 枿 㮆 𣖂 𢮡 𣎴 ancient form 枿 㮆 𣖂 𢮡 𣔏 𣕀 𣠌 𣡌

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːd, *ŋred) : phonetic 辥 (OC *sŋed) + semantic 木 (“wood; tree”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jit⁶ / jip⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niè
    • Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
    • Yale: nyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
    • Palladius: не (ne)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jit⁶ / jip⁶
    • Yale: yiht / yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jit⁹ / jip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yid⁶ / yib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːt̚²/, /jiːp̚²/

Note:

• jit6 - colloquial;
• jip6 - variant.

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• Middle Chinese: ngat, ngjet

Rime
Character	櫱	櫱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	五割切	魚列切
Baxter	ngat	ngjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋat̚/	/ŋiat̚/
Li Rong	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	è	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngot6	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)at/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːd/, /*ŋred/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	niè
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjet ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)at/
English	(shoots from) tree stump
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	櫱	櫱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14059	14063
Phonetic component	薛	薛
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	嶭	孼
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːd/	/*ŋred/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 櫱

1. (alt. form 蘖) sprout growing from a tree stump
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 蠥 (niè).
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 孽 (niè).
4. a surname.

References

• “櫱”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01897

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Japanese

Kanji

櫱

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げつ (getsu)、げち (gechi)、がつ (gatsu)、がち (gachi)
• Kun: ひこばえ (hikobae)