芥

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 介 – a type of plant.

Han character

芥 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿人中中 (TOLL), X廿人中中 (XTOLL), four-corner 4422₈)

1. mustard plant
2. mustard
3. tiny

References

• KangXi: page 1019, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30715
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3182, character 6
• Unihan data for U+82A5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

芥 (Yale gaai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

芥

Readings

• On: かい (kai), け (ke)
• Kun: からし (karashi), あくた (akuta)

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Korean

Hanja

芥 (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

芥 (pinyin jiè (jie4), Wade-Giles chieh⁴)

Compounds

• 芥兰
• 芥蘭
• 芥末 (mustard)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芥 (giới)