蒓

See also: 莼 and 蓴

蒓 U+8493, 蒓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8493 ← 蒒 [U+8492] CJK Unified Ideographs 蒔 → [U+8494]

Translingual

Traditional	蒓
Simplified	莼
Japanese	蓴
Korean	蓴

Han character

蒓 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火山 (TVFU) or 難廿女火山 (XTVFU), composition ⿱艹純)

1. An edible water plant of species Brasenia screberi; watershield.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1048, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31545
• Dae Jaweon: page 1509, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3274, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8493

Chinese

trad.		蒓
simp.		莼
alternative forms		蓴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
躉	*tuːnʔ
窀	*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
沌	*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
盹	*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
頓	*tuːns
扽	*tuːns
黗	*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
吨	*tʰuːnʔ
屯	*duːn, *tun
飩	*duːn
豘	*duːn
軘	*duːn
坉	*duːn
邨	*duːn, *stʰuːn
忳	*duːn
芚	*duːn
庉	*duːn, *duːnʔ
囤	*duːnʔ
迍	*tun
杶	*tʰun
瑃	*tʰun
椿	*tʰun
偆	*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
肫	*tjun
訰	*tjun, *tjuns
純	*tjunʔ, *djun
春	*tʰjun
蠢	*tʰjunʔ
踳	*tʰjunʔ
惷	*tʰjunʔ
蒓	*djun
賰	*hljunʔ
鬊	*hljuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djun) : semantic 艸 (“plant”) + phonetic 純 (OC *tjunʔ, *djun)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chún (chun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon⁴
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶zen

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chún
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chún
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun²
    • Yale: chwún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwen
    • Palladius: чунь (čunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon⁴
    • Yale: sèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶zen
    • MiniDict: zen^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zən²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzywin

Rime
Character	蒓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常倫切
Baxter	dzywin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑwin/
Li Rong	/ʑiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djun/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蒓
Reading #	1/1
No.	12579
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	純
Old Chinese	/*djun/
Notes	本作蓴

Definitions

蒓

1. Brasenia schreberi (watershield)

   Synonym: 茆

Compounds

• 蒓菜／莼菜 (chúncài)

 

References

• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢

Japanese

Kanji

蒓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じゅん (jun); しゅん (shun)
• Kun: ぬなわ (nunawa)