芸

芸 U+82B8, 芸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82B8 ← 芷 [U+82B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 芹 → [U+82B9]

See also: 艺, 蕓, and 藝

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Traditional	藝
Shinjitai	芸
Simplified	艺

Shinjitai	芸蕓芸
Simplified	芸芸艺
Traditional	芸蕓藝

Han characterEdit

芸 (radical 140 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一戈 (TMMI), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱艹云)

Usage notesEdit

Note that the character has different meanings in simplified Chinese (simplification of 蕓) and modern Japanese (simplification of 藝).

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1021, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30741
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82B8

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ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (云) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
魂	*ɢuːn
沄	*ɢuːn, *ɢun
忶	*ɢuːn, *ɢuns
囩	*ɢun
夽	*ŋunʔ
雲	*ɢun
芸	*ɢun
耘	*ɢun
妘	*ɢun
紜	*ɢun
云	*ɢun
耺	*ɢun
蕓	*ɢun
澐	*ɢun
橒	*ɢun
抎	*ɢunʔ

Etymology 1 and 2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢun): semantic 艸 + phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun).

Etymology 3

Simplified from 蕓 (雲 → 云).

Etymology 4

Simplified from 藝 (elimination of 埶).

Etymology 1Edit

simp. and trad.		芸

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yún (yun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁴
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): ung⁵
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhyn (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yún
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yün²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yun
    • IPA ^(key): /yn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ûng
    • IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhyn (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦʏɲ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɨun/▼

Rime
Character	芸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiun/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦun/
Li Rong	/ɣiuən/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yún

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢun/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	芸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yún
Middle Chinese	‹ hjun ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English	ample, rich
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芸
Reading #	1/1
No.	16359
Phonetic component	云
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	雲
Old Chinese	/*ɢun/

DefinitionsEdit

芸

1. rue
2. ^† a type of vegetable
3. ^† Alternative form of 耘 (yún, “to weed”).
4. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

• 舍己芸人
• 芸人
• 芸吏
• 芸夫
• 芸帙
• 芸庶
• 芸扃
• 芸生
• 芸省

• 芸窗
• 芸簡／芸简
• 芸籤／芸签
• 芸編／芸编
• 芸署
• 芸耨
• 芸芸
• 芸芸眾生／芸芸众生
• 芸草

• 芸輝／芸辉
• 芸鋤／芸锄
• 芸閣／芸阁
• 芸館／芸馆
• 芸香 (yúnxiāng)
• 芸香吏
• 芸香科
• 芸香署
• 芸香閣／芸香阁

Etymology 2Edit

simp. and trad.		芸

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yün⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
    • IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/

DefinitionsEdit

芸

1. deep yellow (like dried plants)

   • 苕之華，芸其黃矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

     苕之华，芸其黄矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's translation

     Tiáo zhī huá, yùn qí huáng yǐ. [Pinyin]

     The flowers of the bignonia are of a deep yellow.

CompoundsEdit

• 芸黃／芸黄

Etymology 3Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 芸 – see 蕓. (This character, 芸, is the simplified form of 蕓.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 4Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 芸 – see 藝. (This character, 芸, is a variant form of 藝.)

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JapaneseEdit

Glyph origin 1Edit

Shinjitai	芸
Kyūjitai	藝

Derived from 藝.

KanjiEdit

芸

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 藝)

1. technique, art, craft, performance

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: げい (gei, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: げい (gei, Jōyō)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

• 芸者 (げいしゃ) (geisha)
• 芸子 (げいこ) (geiko)

• 芸術 (げいじゅつ) (geijutsu)
• 腹芸 (はらげい) (haragei)

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
芸
げい Grade: 4
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 藝 (ngjiej^H, “art, skill”).

PronunciationEdit

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) げ​い [géꜜè] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɡe̞ː]

NounEdit

芸 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 藝, hiragana げい, rōmaji gei)

1. art, craft, technique, performance

Glyph origin 2Edit

Derived from 蕓.

KanjiEdit

芸

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji)

1. rue (the herb)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: うん (un)
• Kan’on: うん (un)

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

芸 • (un) (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune-Reischauer un, Yale wun)

1. rue, herb used to keep insects away
2. to cut grass or weeds
3. art
4. talent, ability, craft
5. technique
6. performance, acting
7. trick
8. stunt

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

芸 (vân)

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