荇

荇

荇 U+8347, 荇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8347 ← 荆 [U+8346] CJK Unified Ideographs 荈 → [U+8348]

Translingual

Han character

荇 (radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人弓 (THON), four-corner 4422₁, composition ⿱艹行)

1. banana-plant

References

• KangXi: page 1030, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30942
• Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3206, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8347

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		荇
variant forms		莕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
筕	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
桁	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
行	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
胻	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡	*ɡraːŋ
蘅	*ɡraːŋ
珩	*ɡraːŋ
洐	*ɡraːŋ
荇	*ɡraːŋʔ
絎	*ɡraːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hang⁶
    • Yale: hahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/

Definitions

荇

1. Used in 荇菜 (xìngcài).

Compounds

荇菜 (xìngcài)

藻荇

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Japanese

Kanji

荇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. yellow floating heart (nymphoides peltalum)

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: はなじゆんさい (hanajiyunsai)

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Korean

Hanja

荇 • (haeng) (hangeul 행, revised haeng, McCune–Reischauer haeng, Yale hayng)

1. Nymphoides peltata
2. water chestnut