萵

萵

See also: 莴

萵 U+8435, 萵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8435 ← 萴 [U+8434] CJK Unified Ideographs 萶 → [U+8436]

Translingual

Han character

萵 (radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月口 (TBBR), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹咼)

References

• KangXi: page 1042, character 47
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31351
• Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3234, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8435

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Chinese

trad.		萵
simp.		莴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qloːl) : semantic 艸 (“herbage”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
• Min Nan (POJ): meh / oe / e / o

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wō
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
    • Wade–Giles: wo¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
    • IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh / oe / e / o
    • Tâi-lô: meh / ue / e / o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: meq, oef, ef, oy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ⁵/, /ue³³/, /e³³/, /o³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃ʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /ɤ⁴⁴/

Note:

• meh, oe & e - colloquial readings;
• o - literal reading.

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4380
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	倭
Old Chinese	/*qloːl/

Definitions

萵

1. lettuce

Compounds

萵仔菜／莴仔菜

萵苣／莴苣 (wōjù)

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Japanese

Kanji

萵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: わ (wa)
• Kan-on: わ (wa)

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Korean

Hanja

萵 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萵 (oa)

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