荑

荑 U+8351, 荑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8351 ← 荐 [U+8350] CJK Unified Ideographs 荒 → [U+8352]

Translingual

Han character

荑 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿大弓 (TKN), four-corner 4453₂, composition ⿱艹夷)

1. tender bud
2. sprouts
3. tares

Derived characters

• 𠺹, 𬯐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30952
• Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3202, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8351

Chinese

trad.		荑
simp. #		荑
alternative forms		苐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荑
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
桋	*l'iːl, *lil
荑	*l'iːl, *lil
銕	*l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
鴺	*l'iːl, *lil
鮧	*l'iːl, *lil
洟	*l̥ʰiːls, *lil
羠	*ljilʔ, *lil
咦	*hril
夷	*lil
姨	*lil
痍	*lil
峓	*lil
恞	*lil
眱	*lil
蛦	*lil
胰	*lil, *lɯ
跠	*lil

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tí (ti²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tí
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tí
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi²
    • Yale: tí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyi
    • Palladius: ти (ti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: tai⁴
    • Yale: tàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dej

Rime
Character	荑
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	杜奚切
Baxter	dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dei/
Pan Wuyun	/dei/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛj/
Li Rong	/dei/
Wang Li	/diei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	荑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tí
Middle Chinese	‹ dej ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁəj/
English	young shoot
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	荑
Reading #	1/2
No.	14855
Phonetic component	夷
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嗁
Old Chinese	/*l'iːl/

Definitions

荑

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Compounds

• 丹荑
• 柔荑 (róutí)
• 柔荑花序
• 荑手纖纖 / 荑手纤纤
• 莁荑

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yij

Rime
Character	荑
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以脂切
Baxter	yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ji/
Shao Rongfen	/jɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ji/
Li Rong	/i/
Wang Li	/ji/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lil/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	荑
Reading #	2/2
No.	14868
Phonetic component	夷
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	姨
Old Chinese	/*lil/

Definitions

荑

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Compounds

• 芟荑

Japanese

Kanji

荑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sprouts
2. tares

Readings

• Go-on: い (i)、だい (dai)
• Kan-on: い (i)、てい (tei)
• Kun: つばな (tsubana, 荑)

Korean

Hanja

荑 • (je, i) (hangeul 제, 이, revised je, i, McCune–Reischauer che, i, Yale cey, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

荑: Hán Nôm readings: di, đề

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Readings

• Nôm: di, đề, rì

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999