蓀

See also: 荪

蓀 U+84C0, 蓀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84C0 ← 蒿 [U+84BF] CJK Unified Ideographs 蓁 → [U+84C1]

Translingual

Han character

蓀 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓木火 (TNDF), four-corner 4449₃, composition ⿱艹孫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31635
• Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3272, character 16
• Unihan data for U+84C0

Chinese

trad.		蓀
simp.		荪
alternative forms		𦺈 𦳪 䕖 𧂍 𦽙 𦺈 𦳪 䕖 𧂍 𦽙 𧆙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蓀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
孫	*suːn
猻	*suːn
蓀	*suːn
搎	*suːn
遜	*suːns
愻	*suːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suːn): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 孫 (OC *suːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sūn (sun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sun
    • Wade–Giles: sun¹
    • Yale: swūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suen
    • Palladius: сунь (sunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syun¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swon

Rime
Character	蓀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	思渾切
Baxter	swon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suən/
Pan Wuyun	/suon/
Shao Rongfen	/suən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swən/
Li Rong	/suən/
Wang Li	/suən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*suːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蓀
Reading #	1/1
No.	12180
Phonetic component	孫
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	孫
Old Chinese	/*suːn/

Definitions

蓀

1. (literary) sweet flag (Acorus)
2. used in 溪蓀／溪荪

Japanese

Kanji

蓀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そん (son)

Korean

Hanja

蓀 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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