萇

See also: 苌

萇 U+8407, 萇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8407 ← 萆 [U+8406] CJK Unified Ideographs 萈 → [U+8408]

Translingual

Han character

萇 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿尸一女 (TSMV), four-corner 4473₂, composition ⿱艹長)

1. Averrhora carambola
2. a surname

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31256
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3227, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8407

Chinese

trad.		萇
simp.		苌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
張	*taŋ, *taŋs
餦	*taŋ
粻	*taŋ
漲	*taŋ, *taŋʔ, *taŋs
長	*taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs
脹	*taŋs
痮	*taŋs
帳	*taŋs
賬	*taŋs
倀	*tʰaŋ, *rtaːŋs
鼚	*tʰaŋ
鋹	*tʰaŋʔ
悵	*tʰaŋs
韔	*tʰaŋs
萇	*daŋ
瓺	*daŋ, *daŋs
棖	*rdaːŋ
掁	*rdaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daŋ): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 長 (OC *taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháng (chang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): diòng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dyorng¹ / dyoeng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cháng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cháng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²
    • Yale: cháng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charng
    • Palladius: чан (čan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: coeng⁴
    • Yale: chèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diòng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuoŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dyorng¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dio̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyɒŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dyoeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyøŋ⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiông
    • Tâi-lô: tiông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dioong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: drjang

Rime
Character	萇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直良切
Baxter	drjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/ȡiaŋ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cháng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*daŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萇
Reading #	1/1
No.	1277
Phonetic component	長
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	長
Old Chinese	/*daŋ/

Definitions

萇

1. used in 萇楚／苌楚 (chángchǔ)
2. a surname

Compounds

• 萇弘化碧 / 苌弘化碧
• 萇楚 / 苌楚 (chángchǔ)

References

• “萇”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03899
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 703.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “苌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 26.

Japanese

Kanji

萇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. type of plant

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)

Korean

Hanja

萇 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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