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U+837C, 荼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837C

[U+837B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+837D]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 140, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿人一木 (TOMD), four-corner 44904, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1032, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31008
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3221, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+837C

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː) : semantic (grass) + phonetic (OC *la)

Pronunciation 1

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Rime
Character
Reading # 3/3 1/3 2/3
Initial () (11) (7) (27)
Final () (98) (23) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () II I III
Fanqie
Baxter drae du zyae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠa/ /duo/ /ʑia/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚa/ /duo/ /ʑia/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡa/ /do/ /ʑia/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖaɨ/ /dɔ/ /ʑia/
Li
Rong
/ȡa/ /do/ /d͡ʑia/
Wang
Li
/ȡa/ /du/ /d͡ʑĭa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱa/ /dʱuo/ /d͡ʑʰi̯a/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chá shé
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
caa4 tou4 se4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chá
Middle
Chinese
‹ dræ ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁra/
English (name of a plant)

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 # 1/3 3/3 2/3
No. 15748 15776 15761
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𡨀
Old
Chinese
/*rlaː/ /*l'aː/ /*ɦlja/

Definitions

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  1. a type of bitter vegetable, possibly sow thistle or other plants of Asteraceae
  2. (figurative) pain; suffering
  3. spikes of cogon (or other grasses) with long whitish hair
    如火如  ―  rúhuǒrú  ―  (red) like fire, (white) like cogon spikes
  4. pappus
    • 1803, 程瑤田, 釋草小記:
      芺、薊者……卽其華之實所戴者。
      Thistle... The pappus is what its flower's fruit wears.
  5. white
      ―  shǒu  ―  hoary head
Usage notes
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  • can refer to one of several types of bitter tasting vegetables. Early Chinese texts are rather vague in their description, which makes it difficult to determine which species it originally referred to.

Compounds

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Pronunciation 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“tea; tea; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Pronunciation 3

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Definitions

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  1. a surname

Pronunciation 4

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Definitions

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  1. Only used in 神荼 (Shēnshū).

Compounds

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Pronunciation 5

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to open up; to unfold; to stretch out; to relax; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Ixeridium dentatum
  2. kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

Readings

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  • Go-on: じゃ (ja)ぢや (dya, historical) (do)
  • Kan-on: (ta) (to)
  • Kan’yō-on: (da)
  • Kun: にがな (nigana, )

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: đồ, dưa, giưa

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