See also:
U+8525, 蔥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8525

[U+8524]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8526]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 140, +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹田心 (THWP), four-corner 44332, composition )

Usage notes edit

In the mainland China and Hong Kong standards, 蔥 is a variant form of , where the middle component of the character is written as . In the Taiwan stroke order for 蔥, the middle component is written as .

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1055, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31825
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3281, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8525

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sʰloːŋ) : semantic (grass; plant) + phonetic ().

Etymology 1 edit

trad. /
simp.
2nd round simp.
alternative forms
 
(1)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-tsuŋ (onion). Cognate with Tibetan བཙོང (btsong), ཙོང (tsong, onion, scallion).

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • chĕ̤ng - vernacular;
  • chŭng - literary.
Note:
  • chhang - vernacular;
  • chhong - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tshuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ʰˁoŋ/
English onion

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1821
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰloːŋ/

Definitions edit

  1. green onion; spring onion; scallion (Classifier: m;  m;  m;  m;  c;  c;  c;  mn)
  2. () Allium
  3. (literary, or in compounds) dark green
      ―  qīngcōng  ―  fresh green
Synonyms edit
  • (green onion):
  • (onion):
  • (dark green):

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

  • Zhuang: coeng

Etymology 2 edit

trad. /
simp.

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. Alternative form of (chuāng), only used in 蔥靈葱灵.

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Green onion; leek; scallion
  2. Allium
  3. Green-colored

Readings edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

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

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: song, thông

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