莪

See also: 䕏

莪 U+83AA, 莪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83AA ← 莩 [U+83A9] CJK Unified Ideographs 莫 → [U+83AB]

Translingual

Han character

莪 (radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹手戈 (THQI), four-corner 4455₃, composition ⿱艹我)

Derived characters

• 𠌾, 𪦙

Related characters

• 䕏 (Variant form)

References

• KangXi: page 1035, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31077
• Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3219, character 15
• Unihan data for U+83AA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		莪
alternative forms		䕏 ⿱艸義 ⿱艹⿻十𢍻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
莪	*ŋaːl
哦	*ŋaːl
娥	*ŋaːl
峨	*ŋaːl
峩	*ŋaːl
鵝	*ŋaːl
俄	*ŋaːl
蛾	*ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋	*ŋaːl
涐	*ŋaːl
誐	*ŋaːl
硪	*ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我	*ŋaːlʔ
騀	*ŋaːlʔ
餓	*ŋaːls
義	*ŋrals
儀	*ŋral
轙	*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥	*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻	*ŋralʔ
艤	*ŋralʔ
礒	*ŋralʔ
羛	*ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議	*ŋrals
犧	*hŋral
曦	*hŋral
羲	*hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːl): semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): é (e²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): ngo⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ngo³

• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): gô

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: é
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
    • Wade–Giles: o2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
    • Tongyong Pinyin: é
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngo⁴
    • Yale: ngòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ngo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵑɡᵘɔ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gô
    • Tâi-lô: gô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡo²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡo²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡo¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡo²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡɤ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngo⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑ/

Rime
Character	莪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋa/
Li Rong	/ŋɑ/
Wang Li	/ŋɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	é

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莪
Reading #	1/1
No.	13029
Phonetic component	我
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	莪
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːl/

Definitions

莪

1. (botany) Incarvillea sinensis

   Synonyms: 角蒿, 莪蒿, 萝蒿

2. ^† (botany) Alternative form of 菌 (jùn, “mushroom”).

Compounds

• 莪蒿
• 菁莪

• 蓼莪

• 雪蘭莪／雪兰莪 (Xuělán'é)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03884
• “莪”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

莪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (botany) name of two different plants in the family Asteraceae

Readings

• On (unclassified): が (ga)
• Kun: きつねあざみ (kitsuneazami); つのよもぎ (tsunoyomogi)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
莪
が Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 莪 (MC ŋɑ, “Incarvillea sinensis”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

Derived terms

• 姫著莪(ひめしゃが) (himeshaga): (botany) ja:ヒメシャガ (Iris gracilipes)
• 莪蒿(がこう) (gakō): (botany) (Incarvillea sinensis)
• 菁莪(せいが) (seiga): to raise prodigies; to nurture talented people
• 著莪(しゃが) (shaga): (botany) (Iris japonica)

 

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
莪
きつねあざみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

• 菻, 狐薊

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• IPA^(key): [kʲit͡sɨᵝne̞a̠za̠mʲi]

Noun

莪(きつねあざみ) • (kitsuneazami) 

1. (botany) type of thistle (Hemisteptia lyrata)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
莪
つのよもぎ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝno̞jo̞mo̞ɡʲi]

Noun

莪(つのよもぎ) • (tsunoyomogi) 

1. (botany) name of plant in the Artemisia genus

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Korean

Hanja

莪 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

莪: Hán Nôm readings: ngò, nga

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References

• Nom Foundation