蕨

蕨 U+8568, 蕨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8568 ← 蕧 [U+8567] CJK Unified Ideographs 蕩 → [U+8569]

Translingual

Han character

蕨 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿一廿人 (TMTO), four-corner 4428₂, composition ⿱艹厥)

1. Pteris aquilina (common bracken)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32001
• Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3289, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8568

Chinese

trad.		蕨
simp. #		蕨
alternative forms		𧂱

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鱖	*krods, *kod
蹶	*krods, *krod, *kod
厥	*kod, *kud
欮	*kod
蕨	*kod
劂	*kod
瘚	*kod
蟨	*kod
蟩	*kod
橜	*kod, *ɡod
撅	*kod, *ɡod
闕	*kʰod
橛	*ɡod
鷢	*ɡod
蹷	*ɡod
憠	*ɡod

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan སྐྱས་མ (skyas ma) ~ སྐྱེས་མ (skyes ma, “fern”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kyut³
    • Yale: kyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kjwot

Rime
Character	蕨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居月切
Baxter	kjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuat̚/
Li Rong	/kiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/kĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.kot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蕨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.kot/
English	bracken (a kind of edible fern)
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	蕨
Reading #	1/1
No.	7231
Phonetic component	欮
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	厥
Old Chinese	/*kod/

Definitions

蕨

1. bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)

   • 陟彼南山、言采其蕨。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhì bǐ nánshān, yán cǎi qí jué. [Pinyin]

     I ascended that hill in the south, and gathered the brackens.

See also

• 薇 (wēi, “royal fern”)

Compounds

• 松葉蕨／松叶蕨
• 槲蕨
• 水蕨
• 烏毛蕨／乌毛蕨
• 蕨菜 (juécài)
• 蕗蕨
• 蕨類／蕨类 (juélèi)
• 蕨類植物／蕨类植物
• 薇蕨
• 藜蕨
• 鐵線蕨／铁线蕨

 

Descendants

• → Proto-Tai: *kuːtᴰ
  • Thai: กูด (gùut)

Japanese

Kanji

蕨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: わらび (warabi, 蕨)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蕨
わらび Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

蕨(わらび) or 蕨(ワラビ) • (warabi) 

1. bracken (any of several coarse ferns)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

Derived terms

• 蕨餅(わらびもち) (warabimochi)
• 蕨粉(わらびこ) (warabiko)
• 蕨糊(わらびのり) (warabinori)
• 犬蕨(いぬわらび) (inuwarabi)
• 熊蕨(くまわらび) (kumawarabi)
• 水蕨(みずわらび) (mizuwarabi)

Proper noun

蕨(わらび) • (Warabi) 

1. Warabi (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)

Korean

Hanja

蕨 • (gwol) (hangeul 궐, revised gwol, McCune–Reischauer kwŏl, Yale kwel)

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