蒹

蒹 U+84B9, 蒹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84B9 ← 蒸 [U+84B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 蒺 → [U+84BA]

Translingual

Han character

蒹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿難金 (TTXC), four-corner 4423₇, composition ⿱艹兼)

1. reed, Phragmites australis ( <= Phragmites communis), common reed

Derived characters

• 𣝈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31621
• Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3269, character 8
• Unihan data for U+84B9

Chinese

trad.		蒹
simp. #		蒹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
譧	*r'eːms
賺	*r'eːms
尲	*kreːm
鹻	*kreːmʔ
歉	*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏	*kʰreːmʔ
鰜	*ɡreːm, *keːm
稴	*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉	*ɡ·rem
鎌	*ɡ·rem
鬑	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮	*ɡ·rem
簾	*ɡ·rem
薕	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊	*ɡ·rem
嬚	*ɡ·remʔ
溓	*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰	*kʰremʔ
隒	*ŋɡremʔ
熑	*ɡ·reːm
濂	*ɡ·reːm
燫	*ɡ·reːm
兼	*keːm, *keːms
縑	*keːm
鶼	*keːm
蒹	*keːm
搛	*keːm
謙	*kʰeːm
膁	*kʰeːmʔ
嗛	*kʰeːmʔ
慊	*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔	*kʰeːms
馦	*qʰeːm
嫌	*ɡeːm
鼸	*ɡeːmʔ
尷	*kreːm

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiān (jian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gim¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): giĕng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gieng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jian
    • Wade–Giles: chien¹
    • Yale: jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gim¹
    • Yale: gīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːm⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: giĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kieŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gieng¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: giang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiɛŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gieng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiam
    • Tâi-lô: kiam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiam⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kem

Rime
Character	蒹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古甜切
Baxter	kem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kem/
Pan Wuyun	/kem/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛm/
Li Rong	/kem/
Wang Li	/kiem/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiem/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gim1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤem/

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蒹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiān
Middle Chinese	‹ kem ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁem/
English	rush, sedge
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	蒹
Reading #	1/1
No.	6066
Phonetic component	兼
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	兼
Old Chinese	/*keːm/

Definitions

蒹

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Compounds

• 蒹葭
• 蒹葭倚玉

References

• “蒹”, 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–
• 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 320.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蒹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 103.

Japanese

Kanji

蒹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. type of reed

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: おぎ (ogi)

Korean

Hanja

蒹 • (gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune–Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyem)

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