萵

See also: 莴

萵	U+8435, 萵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8435

← 萴
[U+8434]

CJK Unified Ideographs

萶 →
[U+8436]

Translingual

Han character

萵 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月口 (TBBR), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹咼)

Derived characters

𨗲

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1042, character 47
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31351
Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3234, character 14
Unihan data for U+8435

Chinese

trad.		萵
simp.		莴
2nd round simp.		呙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	ɡ·roːl, kʷroːl
過	kloːl, kloːls
渦	kloːl, qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	kloːl, ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	koːl, kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	kloːl, qloːl
鐹	kloːlʔ, kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	kʰloːl, kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	kroːl, kʷroːl
媧	kroːl, kʷroːl
騧	kroːl, kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	qʰroːls, qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qloːl): semantic 艹 (“herbage”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): meh / oe / e / o

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wō
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wo
  - Wade–Giles: wo¹
  - Yale: wō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
  - Palladius: во (vo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wo¹
  - Yale: wō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh / oe / e / o
  - Tâi-lô: meh / ue / e / o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meq, oef, ef, oy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ⁵/, /ue³³/, /e³³/, /o³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃ʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽʔ³²/, /ue⁴⁴/, /e⁴⁴/, /ɤ⁴⁴/

Note:

meh, oe & e - colloquial readings;
o - literal reading.

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4380
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	倭
Old Chinese	/*qloːl/

Definitions

萵

lettuce

Compounds

萵仔菜 / 莴仔菜
萵筍 / 莴笋 (wōsǔn)
萵苣 / 莴苣 (wōjù)

Japanese

Kanji

萵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: わ (wa)
Kan-on: わ (wa)

Korean

Hanja

萵 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萵: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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