藷蔗

藷蔗

Chinese

		sugar cane	sugar cane
trad. (藷蔗)		藷	蔗
simp. (𫉄蔗)		𫉄	蔗
alternative forms		諸柘／诸柘 諸蔗／诸蔗

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhūzhè

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ ㄓㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhūzhè
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ ㄓㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhujhè
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹-chê⁴
    • Yale: jū-jè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jujeh
    • Palladius: чжучжэ (čžučžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨʌ  t͡ɕia^H/

Rime
Character	藷	蔗
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	章魚切	之夜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨʌ/	/t͡ɕiaH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɔ/	/t͡ɕiaH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɔ/	/t͡ɕiaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨə̆/	/ciaH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɔ/	/t͡ɕiaH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭo/	/t͡ɕĭaH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wo/	/t͡ɕi̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhū	zhè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu1	ze3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tja  tjaːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyæH ›
Old Chinese	/*tAk-s/
English	sugarcane
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藷	蔗
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	17002	11896
Phonetic component	者	庶
Rime group	魚	暮
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	諸	柘
Old Chinese	/*tja/	/*tjaːɡs/
Notes		招魂作柘

Noun

藷蔗

1. (archaic) sugar cane

   • 江離蘪蕪，諸柘巴且。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     江离蘪芜，诸柘巴且。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. the 150s BCE, Sima Xiangru (司馬相如), 《子虛賦》. Translated as Sir Fantasy in Burton Watson (1971) Chinese Rhyme-Prose: Poems in the Fu form from the Han and Six Dynasties periods, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 32.

     Jiānglí míwú, zhūzhè bājū. [Pinyin]

     Selinea and angelica,
     Sugar cane and ginger.