蘗

See also: 檘 and 檗

蘗	U+8617, 蘗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8617

← 蘖
[U+8616]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蘘 →
[U+8618]

Translingual

Alternative forms

In Taiwan and Hong Kong (based on the Big5 character form), the bottom component is written 𣎳 instead of 木.

Han character

蘗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+17, 21 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 20 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿尸十木 (TSJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱薜木(GJK) or ⿱薜𣎳(HT))

Related characters

檗 (Preferred form used in mainland China)

References

KangXi: page 1069, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32479
Dae Jaweon: page 1535, character 33
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3333, character 7
Unihan data for U+8617

Chinese

Etymology 1

This section refers to ⿱薜𣎳 glyph.

trad.		蘗
simp. ^#		蘗
alternative forms		⿱⻀檗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bò (bo⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³, paak³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bò
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bò
  - Wade–Giles: po⁴
  - Yale: bwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: boh
  - Palladius: бо (bo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pwɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baak³, paak³
  - Yale: baak, paak
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸, paak⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: bag³, pag³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³/, /pʰaːk̚³/

Note:

baak3 - colloquial;
paak3 - variant.

Definitions

蘗

(chiefly Taiwan) Used in 黃蘗／黄蘗 and related compounds
alt. forms: 檗 (mainland China)

Compounds

根蘗繁殖
蘗米

飲冰茹蘗／饮冰茹蘗
飲冰食蘗／饮冰食蘗

黃蘗／黄蘗
齧蘗吞針／啮蘗吞针

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03599
“蘗”, 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–

Etymology 2

This section refers to ⿱薜木 glyph.

Glyph origin

Found in the historical Jiyun 《集韻》 dictionary published during the Song dynasty.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 蘗 – see 薜 (“type of grass ; etc.”). (This character, 蘗, is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 薜.)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03573-002-1#26

Japanese

Kanji

蘗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

a tree, from the Rutaceae (citrus) family

Readings

On (unclassified): はく (haku); びゃく (byaku)
Kun: きわだ (kiwada)

Korean

Hanja

蘗 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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