菖

菖

菖 U+83D6, 菖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83D6 ← 菕 [U+83D5] CJK Unified Ideographs 菗 → [U+83D7]

Translingual

Han character

菖 (radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日日 (TAA), four-corner 4460₆, composition ⿱艹昌)

1. iris, sweet flag, calamus

References

• KangXi: page 1038, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31174
• Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3233, character 12
• Unihan data for U+83D6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		菖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昌) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	*tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng¹
    • Yale: chēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœ̽ːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/▼

Rime
Character	菖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	菖
Reading #	1/1
No.	1252
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

菖

1. Only used in 菖蒲 (chāngpú).

Compounds

唐菖蒲 白菖 石菖蒲 (shíchāngpú)

菖蒲 (chāngpú) 菖蒲蓮／菖蒲莲 菖蒲酒

菖蘭／菖兰 菖鮋

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Japanese

Kanji

菖

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. iris (the flower)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

菖 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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