芸

See also: 艺, 蕓, and 藝

芸 U+82B8, 芸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82B8 ← 芷 [U+82B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 芹 → [U+82B9]

Translingual

Japanese	芸 蕓 芸
Simplified	芸 芸 艺
Traditional	芸 蕓 藝

Han character

芸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一戈 (TMMI), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱艹云)

Derived characters

• 𠊁, 𫰼, 𣶽, 𦓷, 𩸜, 𫶮, 𣦀, 𧅟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1021, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30741
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82B8

Usage notes

This character was originally independent from 蕓, but later is also used to simplify it in Simplified Chinese; in Japanese, it is the simplified form of 藝, which was simplified differently in Chinese.

Chinese

Glyph origin 1

trad.		芸
simp. #		芸
alternative forms		𦱚 蒷

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

	Old Chinese
魂	*ɢuːn
沄	*ɢuːn, *ɢun
忶	*ɢuːn, *ɢuns
囩	*ɢun
夽	*ŋunʔ
雲	*ɢun
芸	*ɢun
耘	*ɢun
妘	*ɢun
紜	*ɢun
云	*ɢun
耺	*ɢun
蕓	*ɢun
澐	*ɢun
橒	*ɢun
抎	*ɢunʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢun): semantic 艸 + phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yún (yun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ûn / în

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ung⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yún
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yún
    • Wade–Giles: yün²
    • Yale: yún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûn
    • Tâi-lô: ûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uun
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /un²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /un²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: în
    • Tâi-lô: în
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iin
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /in¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ûng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶yun
    • MiniDict: yuin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhyn
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦyn²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hjun

Rime
Character	芸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王分切
Baxter	hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiun/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦun/
Li Rong	/ɣiuən/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	芸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yún
Middle Chinese	‹ hjun ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English	ample, rich
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	芸
Reading #	1/1
No.	16359
Phonetic component	云
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	雲
Old Chinese	/*ɢun/

Definitions

芸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of vegetable
2. short for 芸香 (yúnxiāng)
3. used in 芸臺／芸台 (yúntái)
4. used in 芸芸 (yúnyún)
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 耘 (yún, “to weed”)
6. a surname

Compounds

• 舍己芸人
• 芸吏
• 芸夫
• 芸帙
• 芸庶
• 芸扃
• 芸生
• 芸省
• 芸窗
• 芸簡 / 芸简
• 芸籤 / 芸签
• 芸編 / 芸编
• 芸署
• 芸耨
• 芸芸 (yúnyún)
• 芸芸眾生 / 芸芸众生 (yúnyúnzhòngshēng)
• 芸草
• 芸輝 / 芸辉
• 芸鋤 / 芸锄
• 芸閣 / 芸阁
• 芸館 / 芸馆
• 芸香 (yúnxiāng)
• 芸香吏
• 芸香科
• 芸香署
• 芸香閣 / 芸香阁

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùn
    • Wade–Giles: yün⁴
    • Yale: yùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/

Definitions

芸

1. deep yellow (like dried plants)

   • 苕之華，芸其黃矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     苕之华，芸其黄矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Tiáo zhī huá, yùn qí huáng yǐ. [Pinyin]

     The flowers of the bignonia are of a deep yellow.

Compounds

• 芸黃 / 芸黄

Glyph origin 2

Simplified Chinese. An analogization of simplifying 雲 / 云 (yún) into 云 (yún).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 芸 – see 蕓. (This character is the simplified form of 蕓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.