髮根

Chinese

		hair	root
trad. (髮根)		髮	根
simp. (发根*)		发	根

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fàgēn, fǎgēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˋ ㄍㄣ, ㄈㄚˇ ㄍㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ gan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fàgēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˋ ㄍㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fàgen
    • Wade–Giles: fa⁴-kên¹
    • Yale: fà-gēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fahgen
    • Palladius: фагэнь (fagɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä⁵¹ kən⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǎgēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄍㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǎgen
    • Wade–Giles: fa³-kên¹
    • Yale: fǎ-gēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faagen
    • Palladius: фагэнь (fagɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ kən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ gan¹
    • Yale: faat gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ gan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ gen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ kɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjot kon

Rime
Character	髮	根
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	月 (68)	痕 (53)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	方伐切	古痕切
Baxter	pjot	kon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉɐt̚/	/kən/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɐt̚/	/kən/
Shao Rongfen	/piuɐt̚/	/kən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puat̚/	/kən/
Li Rong	/piuɐt̚/	/kən/
Wang Li	/pĭwɐt̚/	/kən/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯wɐt̚/	/kən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fa	gēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faat3	gan1

Noun

髮根

1. hair root
2. (botany) hairy root of plants

Derived terms

• 髮根農桿菌／发根农杆菌 (fàgēn nónggǎnjūn)