叶

See also: 葉

叶 U+53F6, 叶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F6 ← 叵 [U+53F5] CJK Unified Ideographs 号 → [U+53F7]

Translingual

Han character

叶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口十 (RJ), composition ⿰口十)

Derived characters

• 𭈍

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 174, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3255
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 568, character 2
• Unihan data for U+53F6

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
栛	*reːbs
珕	*reːbs, *rebs
荔	*reːbs, *rebs
脅	*hlams, *hlab
姭	*hlams
搚	*raːb, *raːb
拹	*hlab
愶	*hlab
嗋	*hlab
熁	*hlab
協	*ɦleːb
勰	*ɦleːb
劦	*ɦleːb
叶	*ɦleːb

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 十 (“ten”) – many voices in harmony. 十 (OC *ɡjub) may also act as a phonetic component. It is an ancient variant form of 協 (OC *ɦleːb) used since antiquity.

It was later borrowed for 葉／叶 because 協／协 (xié) and 葉／叶 are homophones in some varieties of Northern Wu. This usage was made official in Simplified Chinese.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 叶 – see 協 (“to cooperate; to work together; to collaborate; to assist; to help; etc.”). (This character is an ancient variant form of 協).

Compounds

• 叶吉
• 叶韻 (xiéyùn)
• 夢蘭叶吉／梦兰叶吉
• 潭祉叶吉

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 叶 – see 葉 (“leaf; petal; era; epoch; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 葉).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

叶

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. fulfill
2. come true

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: かなう (kanau, 叶う)^{←かなふ (kanafu, 叶ふ, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

叶 • (hyeop) (hangeul 협, McCune–Reischauer hyŏp)

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