茴

茴

茴 U+8334, 茴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8334 ← 茳 [U+8333] CJK Unified Ideographs 茵 → [U+8335]

Translingual

Han character

茴 (radical 140, 艸+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田口 (TWR), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹回)

Derived characters

• 𤌚, 𮏤

References

• KangXi: page 1029, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30913
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3204, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8334

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		茴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (回) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
回	*ɡuːl
徊	*ɡuːl
茴	*ɡuːl
洄	*ɡuːl
迴	*ɡuːl, *ɡuːls
佪	*ɡuːl
蛔	*ɡuːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡuːl) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 回 (OC *ɡuːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huí (hui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wui⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hôe
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhue (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: huí
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hui²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huéi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xweɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wui⁴
    • Yale: wùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wui⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːy̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôe
    • Tâi-lô: huê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoee
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hue²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hue²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hue²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhue (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦɯe̞²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦuʌi/▼

Rime
Character	茴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	戸恢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuoi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəj/
Li Rong	/ɣuᴀi/
Wang Li	/ɣuɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	茴
Reading #	1/1
No.	5445
Phonetic component	回
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	回
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːl/

Definitions

茴

1. Used in 茴香 (huíxiāng).
2. fennel; aniseed

Compounds

八角茴香 (bājiǎo huíxiāng) 土茴香 大茴香 (dàhuíxiāng) 大茴香子 安息茴香 (ānxī huíxiāng)

小茴香 (xiǎohuíxiāng) 茴芹 茴香 (huíxiāng) 茴香橘核丸 (huíxiāng júhé wán) 茴香籽

茴香豆 (huíxiāngdòu) 藏茴香果 野小茴 阿拉伯茴香 (ālābó huíxiāng)

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Japanese

Kanji

茴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: え (e)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: うい (ui)

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Korean

Hanja

茴 • (hoe) (hangeul 회, revised hoe, McCune–Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茴: Hán Việt readings: hồi[1][2][3]
茴: Nôm readings: hồi[1][2], gồi[1]

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References

1. Nguyễn (2014).
2. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
3. Trần (2004).