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莖

See also: 茎
莖 U+8396, 莖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8396
← 莕
[U+8395] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莗 →
[U+8397]

Translingual

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Traditional 莖
Shinjitai 茎
Simplified 茎

Han character

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莖 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿一女一 (TMVM), four-corner 44101, composition ⿱艹巠)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31052
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3217, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8396

Chinese

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trad. 莖
simp. 茎

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (坙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羥 *kʰreːn, *kʰreːŋ
俓 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋɡreːŋ, *keːŋs
牼 *kʰreːŋ, *ɡreːŋ
硁
誙 *kʰreːŋ
娙 *ŋɡreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
莖 *ɡreːŋ, *qreːŋ
痙 *ɡeŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːŋ, *qreːŋ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ).

Etymology

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Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-kja-ŋ (“foot”) (STEDT), whence Tibetan རྐང་པ (rkang pa, “foot; leg; stem; stalk”).

脛 (OC *ɡeːŋs, “lower leg”) is also compared to the above Proto-Sino-Tibetan lemma.

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • ging1, hang4, kwaang2 - variants;
  • kwaang2 - also written as 梗.
Note:
  • hûiⁿ/hoâiⁿ/hôaⁿ - vernacular;
  • keng/kèng - vernacular (俗);
  • hêng - literary.
Rime
Character 莖
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 戸耕切
Baxter heang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣæŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		héng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hang4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莖
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jīng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hɛng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-k-lˁ<r>eŋ/
English stalk (n.)

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 莖
Reading # 1/2
No. 6786
Phonetic
component 		坙
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		莖
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡreːŋ/

Definitions

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莖

  1. stem; stalk; something like a stalk
  2. † tall and straight
  3. † pillar
  4. † (traditional Chinese medicine) penis
  5. † handle
  6. Classifier for strips or stalks of objects.
Synonyms
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  • (stem): (literary) 稿 (gǎo)
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character 莖
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 烏莖切
Baxter 'eang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ʔɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/æŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ang1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 莖
Reading # 2/2
No. 6788
Phonetic
component 		坙
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		甖
Old
Chinese 		/*qreːŋ/

Definitions

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莖

  1. Only used in 姚莖／姚茎.

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

茎

Kyūjitai

莖

Kanji

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莖

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 茎)

  1. stem
  2. stalk

Readings

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  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kan’yō-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: くき (kuki, 莖)、くく (kuku, 莖)、なかご (nakago, 莖)

Korean

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Hanja

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莖 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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莖: Hán Nôm readings: hành, kinh

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