荌

荌 U+834C, 荌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-834C ← 荋 [U+834B] CJK Unified Ideographs 荍 → [U+834D]

Translingual

Han character

荌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿十女 (TJV), four-corner 4440₄, composition ⿱艹安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30947
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3210, character 12
• Unihan data for U+834C

Chinese

trad.		荌
simp. #		荌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːns) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àn (an⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: àn
    • Wade–Giles: an⁴
    • Yale: àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ann
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'anH

Rime
Character	荌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏旰切
Baxter	'anH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔanH/
Li Rong	/ʔɑnH/
Wang Li	/ɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	àn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	on3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	荌
Reading #	1/1
No.	18
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	按
Old Chinese	/*qaːns/

Definitions

荌

2. ^‡ a kind of grass

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C11460