葱

See also: 蔥 and 茐

葱	U+8471, 葱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8471

Translingual

葱 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿心大心 (TPKP), composition ⿱艹怱)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰloːŋ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 怱 (OC *sʰloːŋ).

For pronunciation and definitions of 葱 – see 蔥 (“green onion; spring onion; scallion; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 蔥).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Region	蔥	葱
Taiwan	standard	variant
Hong Kong	variant	standard

葱

Compound of 根 (ne, “root”) +‎ 葱 (ki, “onion”, older form).^[1]

葱(ねぎ) or 葱(ネギ) • (negi) (counter 本)

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

葱 • (chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune–Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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