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U+8579, 蕹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8579

[U+8578]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+857A]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 140, +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女土 (TYVG), four-corner 44214, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1059, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32057
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1523, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3306, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8579

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (grass) + phonetic (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋs).

Etymology 1

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From (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs, “to heap soil around the roots of a plant”) according to the Compendium of Materia Medica:

[Classical Chinese, trad.]
[Classical Chinese, simp.]
Shízhēn yuē: Wèng yǔ yōng tóng. Cǐ cài wéi yǐ yōng chéng, gù wèi zhī yōng. [Pinyin]
Shizhen said, is the same as . This vegetable can only grow by heaping soil around the roots, so it is called .

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (of grass) thick; lush

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • On (unclassified): よう () (yu)
  • Kun: あつめる (atsumeru)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: ung, ủng

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