蕷

See also: 蓣

蕷 U+8577, 蕷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8577 ← 蕶 [U+8576] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕸 → [U+8578]

Translingual

Han character

蕷 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓弓金 (TNNC), four-corner 4428₆, composition ⿱艹預)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1059, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32054
• Dae Jaweon: page 1523, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3309, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8577

Chinese

trad.		蕷
simp.		蓣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
野	*laːʔ, *ɦljaʔ
壄	*laːʔ
序	*ljaʔ
抒	*ljaʔ, *hlja, *ɦljaʔ
芧	*l'aʔ
杼	*l'aʔ, *ɦljaʔ
墅	*ɦljaːʔ
舒	*hlja
紓	*hlja, *ɦljaʔ
妤	*la
伃	*la
予	*la, *laʔ
預	*las
忬	*las
豫	*las
蕷	*las
澦	*las

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): y⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁶
    • Yale: yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: y⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yoH

Rime
Character	蕷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊洳切
Baxter	yoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/iɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/iɔH/
Wang Li	/jĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*las/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蕷
Reading #	1/1
No.	15743
Phonetic component	予
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	豫
Old Chinese	/*las/
Notes	薯蕷俗同藷藇

Definitions

蕷

1. Only used in 薯蕷／薯蓣 (shǔyù).

References

• “蕷”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蓣”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.

Japanese

Kanji

蕷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よ (yo)