薳

薳

薳 U+85B3, 薳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85B3 ← 薲 [U+85B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 薴 → [U+85B4]

Translingual

Han character

薳 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜土女 (TYGV), four-corner 4430₃, composition ⿱艹遠)

References

• KangXi: page 1062, character 49
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32195
• Dae Jaweon: page 1527, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3299, character 9
• Unihan data for U+85B3

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Chinese

trad.		薳
simp. #		薳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
薳	*ɢʷalʔ
袁	*ɢʷan
園	*ɢʷan
轅	*ɢʷan
猿	*ɢʷan
榬	*ɢʷan
溒	*ɢʷan
遠	*ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěi (wei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai², wai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wěi
    • Wade–Giles: wei³
    • Yale: wěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai², wai⁵
    • Yale: wái, wáih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai², wai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei², wei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³⁵/, /wɐi̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠiuᴇ^X/

Rime
Character	薳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	支 (14)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	韋委切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjwiə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɣjueX/
Wang Li	/ɣǐweX/
Bernard Karlgren	/wie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷalʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	薳
Reading #	1/1
No.	16219
Phonetic component	袁
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蔿
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷalʔ/
Notes	見左傳

Definitions

薳

1. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuǎn (yuan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yüan³
    • Yale: ywǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁵
    • Yale: yúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn¹³/

Definitions

薳

1. ^‡ Used in 薳志 (yuǎnzhì), an alternative form of 遠志／远志 (yuǎnzhì) (the herb sense).

Pronunciation 3

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁵
    • Yale: yúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn¹³/

Definitions

薳

1. Used in 菜薳.

References

• “薳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Korean

Hanja

薳 • (won, wi) (hangeul 원, 위, revised won, wi, McCune–Reischauer won, Yale wan)

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