蔥

See also 葱

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 悤

Han character

蔥 (radical 140 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹田心 (THWP), four-corner 4433₂)

1. scallions, onions, leeks

References

• KangXi: page 1055, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31825
• Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3281, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8525

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蔥 (simplified 葱, Yale chung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

蔥

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: ねぎ (negi)

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Korean

Hanja

蔥 (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蔥 (simplified 葱, pinyin cōng (cong1), Wade-Giles ts'ung¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔥 (thông, song)