荇

荇	U+8347, 荇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8347

← 荆
[U+8346]

CJK Unified Ideographs

荈 →
[U+8348]

Translingual

Han character

荇 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人弓 (THON), four-corner 4422₁, composition ⿱艹行)

banana-plant

References

KangXi: page 1030, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30942

Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3206, character 10

Unihan data for U+8347

Chinese

trad.		荇
simp. ^#		荇
alternative forms		莕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
筕	ɡaːŋ, ɡraːŋ
桁	ɡaːŋ, ɡraːŋ
行	ɡaːŋ, ɡaːŋs, ɡraːŋ, ɡraːŋs
胻	ɡaːŋ, ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡	*ɡraːŋ
蘅	*ɡraːŋ
珩	*ɡraːŋ
洐	*ɡraːŋ
荇	*ɡraːŋʔ
絎	*ɡraːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìng
  - Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
  - Yale: syìng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
  - Palladius: син (sin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hang⁶
  - Yale: hahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/

Definitions

荇

Used in 荇菜 (xìngcài).

Compounds

荇菜 (xìngcài)

藻荇

Japanese

Kanji

荇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

yellow floating heart (nymphoides peltalum)

Readings

On (unclassified): こう (kō); ぎょう (gyō)

Kun: はなじゅんさい (hanajunsai)

Korean

Hanja

荇 (eum 행 (haeng))

Nymphoides peltata
water chestnut

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