茹
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Translingual
Han character
茹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿女口 (TVR), four-corner 44460, composition ⿱艹如)
- roots
- vegetables
- eat
- to bear; withstand
Derived characters
- 𣺾, 𦷸
References
- KangXi: page 1029, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30921
- Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3211, character 11
- Unihan data for U+8339
Chinese
| trad. | 茹 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 茹 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (女) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 拿 | *rnaː |
| 拏 | *rnaː |
| 詉 | *rnaː |
| 蒘 | *rnaː, *na |
| 笯 | *rnaː, *naː, *naːs |
| 挐 | *rnaː, *na |
| 絮 | *rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas |
| 呶 | *rnaːw |
| 怓 | *rnaːw |
| 帑 | *n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː |
| 奴 | *naː |
| 砮 | *naː, *naːʔ |
| 駑 | *naː |
| 孥 | *naː |
| 努 | *naːʔ |
| 弩 | *naːʔ |
| 怒 | *naːʔ, *naːs |
| 袽 | *na |
| 帤 | *na |
| 女 | *naʔ, *nas |
| 籹 | *naʔ |
| 恕 | *hnjas |
| 如 | *nja, *njas |
| 茹 | *nja, *njaʔ, *njas |
| 洳 | *nja, *njas |
| 鴽 | *nja |
| 蕠 | *nja |
| 汝 | *njaʔ |
| 肗 | *njaʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njas) : semantic 艹 (“grass, plants”) + phonetic 如 (OC *nja, *njas) – plant roots, part of a plant.
Etymology
Schuessler (2007) proposes an Austroasiatic origin; compare Kharia [script needed] (ɲoʔ, “to eat”) and Proto-Vietic *s-nja:ʔ (“to chew, to masticate”) (> Vietnamese nhá). Schuessler (2003) also compares 茹 with Jingpho noʔ¹ 'to eat' and Proto-Mienic *ʔnəkD 'to swallow'.
Pronunciation
Definitions
茹
- to eat
- to bear
- to guess
- soft
- corrupted
- vegetables
- a surname
- (organic chemistry) rubicene
Compounds
References
- “茹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Korean
Hanja
茹 • (yeo) (hangeul 여, revised yeo, McCune–Reischauer yŏ, Yale ye)
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Vietnamese
Han character
茹: Hán Nôm readings: nhà, nhu, như, nhựa, nhự, nhừa
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References
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