薔

See also 蔷

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

薔 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿土人田 (TGOW), four-corner 4460₁)

1. rose

References

• KangXi: page 1061, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32113
• Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3300, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8594

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Cantonese

Hanzi

薔 (simplified 蔷, jyutping coeng4, Yale cheung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

薔

Readings

• On: しょく (shoku), しょう (shō), そう (sō)
• Kun: みずたで (mizutade)

Compounds

• 薔薇 (ばら, “rose”)

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Korean

Hanja

薔 (hangeul 장, 색, revised jang, saek, McCune-Reischauer chang, saek, Yale cang, sayk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

薔 (simplified 蔷, pinyin qiáng (qiang2), Wade-Giles ch'iang²), sè

Compounds

• 薔薇

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Middle Chinese

Han character

薔 (dzhiɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薔 (sắc, tường)