芸

See also: 艺, 蕓, and 藝

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

Contents

Translingual

Japanese	芸 蕓 芸
Simplified	芸 芸 艺
Traditional	芸 蕓 藝

Han character

芸 (radical 140, 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一戈 (TMMI), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱艹云)

Derived characters

• 𠊁, 𫰼, 𣶽, 𦓷, 𩸜, 𫶮, 𣦀, 𧅟

References

• 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

Usage notes

This character was originally derived from 蕓, and is also used to simplify it in Traditional Chinese; in Japanese, it is the simplified form of 藝, which was simplified differently in Chinese.

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Chinese

Glyph origin 1

trad.		芸
simp. #		芸

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

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

Pronunciation 1

• 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)⁺
    • 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/

Definitions

芸

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

Compounds

• 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 (yúnyúnzhòngshēng)
• 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

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ

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

Definitions

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 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

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

     The flowers of the bignonia are of a deep yellow.

Compounds

• 芸黃／芸黄

Glyph origin 2

Simplified Chinese. An analogization of simplifying 雲 into 云.

Definitions

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.

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Japanese

Glyph origin 1

Shinjitai	芸
Kyūjitai	藝

Derived from 藝.

Kanji

芸

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

1. technique, art, craft, performance
2. Short for 安芸国 (Aki no kuni, “Aki Province”).

Readings

• Go-on: げい (gei, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: げい (gei, Jōyō)

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. art, craft, technique, performance
2. trick (of animals)

   犬 (いぬ)に芸 (げい)を教 (おし)える

   inu ni gei o oshieru

   to teach a dog tricks

Compounds

Derived terms

• 芸 (げい)者 (しゃ) (geisha)
• 芸 (げい)子 (こ) (geiko)
• 芸術 (げいじゅつ) (geijutsu)
• 腹芸 (はらげい) (haragei)

Glyph origin 2

Originally derived from 蕓 into a separate character; not a shinjitai form.

Kanji

芸

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. rue (the herb)

Readings

• Go-on: うん (un)
• Kan-on: うん (un)

References

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Hanja

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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Vietnamese

Han character

芸 (vân)

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