苸

苸 U+82F8, 苸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82F8 ← 苷 [U+82F7] CJK Unified Ideographs 苹 → [U+82F9]

Translingual

Han character

苸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹火木 (THFD), four-corner 4440₉, composition ⿱艹乎)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30822
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3194, character 5
• Unihan data for U+82F8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		苸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
罅	*qʰraːs
呼	*qʰaː
軤	*qʰaː
苸	*qʰaː
嘑	*qʰaː
歑	*qʰaː
謼	*qʰaː, *qʰaːs
滹	*qʰaː
乎	*ɢaː
虖	*qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
嫭	*ɢaːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰaː): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hu
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Yale: hū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xu

Rime
Character	苸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	荒烏切
Baxter	xu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huo/
Pan Wuyun	/huo/
Shao Rongfen	/xo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɔ/
Li Rong	/xo/
Wang Li	/xu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苸
Reading #	1/1
No.	5183
Phonetic component	乎
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	呼
Old Chinese	/*qʰaː/

Definitions

苸

1. (historical dictionaries only) A type of grass.
2. abundant grass

Korean

Hanja

苸 (eumhun 풀 이름 호 (pul ireum ho))

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 苸

Vietnamese

Han character

苸: Hán Việt readings: hồ

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References

• Nom Foundation