芏

芏 U+828F, 芏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-828F ← 芎 [U+828E] CJK Unified Ideographs 芐 → [U+8290]

Translingual

Han character

芏 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土 (TG), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱艹土)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1018, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30679
• Dae Jaweon: page 1476, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3174, character 8
• Unihan data for U+828F

Chinese

trad.		芏
simp. #		芏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
社	*ɦljaːʔ
肚	*ʔl'aːʔ, *l'aːʔ
土	*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ
吐	*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l̥ʰaːs
芏	*l̥ʰaːʔ
杜	*l'aːʔ
靯	*l'aːʔ
荰	*l'aːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːʔ) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 土 (OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dù, tǔ (du⁴, tu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ, ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dù
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dù
    • Wade–Giles: tu⁴
    • Yale: dù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu³
    • Yale: tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuu
    • Palladius: ту (tu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou⁶
    • Yale: douh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: thuX

Rime
Character	芏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他魯切
Baxter	thuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰoX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɔX/
Li Rong	/tʰoX/
Wang Li	/tʰuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芏
Reading #	1/1
No.	12501
Phonetic component	土
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	土
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Definitions

芏

1. Cyperus malaccensis

Compounds

• 芏草
• 茳芏

 

References

• “芏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–