芰

      Translingual

      Han character

      芰 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿十水 (TJE), four-corner 44407)

      1. water caltrop

      References

      • KangXi: page 1020, character 18
      • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30733
      • Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 4
      • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3178, character 8
      • Unihan data for U+82B0
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      Cantonese

      Hanzi

      芰 (Yale gei6)

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      Japanese

      Kanji

      芰

      Readings

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      Korean

      Hanja

      芰 (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

      1. (마름): water caltrop, (also implausibly) water chestnut
        • 1431: 鄕藥採取月令[1] 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):
          芰實鄕名末栗[2][3] (기실향명말밤, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")

      Synonyms

      • 末栗 (말밤, malbam)

      Notes

      1. ^ This was authored by several scholars at the direction of King Sejong of Yi Dynasty, concerning the folk medical herb gathering by month.
      2. ^ Cited by: 南廣祐 (1997). 敎學古語辭典. 敎學社. p. 538.
      3. ^ "末栗" is a hanja rendering for 말밤(mal-bam), the origin of 마름(mareum, 菱) "water caltrop, water chestnut," literally, "coarse chestnut" such as "horse-chestnut".
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      Mandarin

      Hanzi

      芰 (pinyin hū (hu1), jì (ji4), Wade-Giles hu1, chi4)

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