萼

See also: 蕚
萼 U+843C, 萼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-843C
← 萻
[U+843B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 落 →
[U+843D]

Translingual

Han character

萼 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿口口尸 (TRRS), four-corner 44207, composition ⿱艹咢)

  1. the stem and calyx of a flower
  2. a younger brother

References
  • KangXi: page 1043, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31361
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3249, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+843C

Chinese
trad. 萼
simp. # 萼
alternative forms 蕚／萼
鄂

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (屰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斥 *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴 *sŋaːɡs
泝 *sŋaːɡs
愬 *sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡 *sŋaːɡs
塑 *sŋaːɡs
溯 *sŋaːɡs
遻 *ŋaːɡs
柝 *tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚 *ŋaːɡ
諤 *ŋaːɡ
齶 *ŋaːɡ
鍔 *ŋaːɡ
遌 *ŋaːɡ
崿 *ŋaːɡ
偔 *ŋaːɡ
堮 *ŋaːɡ
湂 *ŋaːɡ
鱷 *ŋaːɡ
噩 *ŋaːɡ
咢 *ŋaːɡ
鑩 *ŋaːɡ
鄂 *ŋaːɡ
鰐 *ŋaːɡ
萼 *ŋaːɡ
愕 *ŋaːɡ
顎 *ŋaːɡ
朔 *sŋraːɡ
槊 *sraːwɢ
蒴 *sraːwɢ
坼 *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆 *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆 *ŋraɡ
屰 *ŋraɡ
縌 *ŋraɡ
蝷 *reːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 萼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 唐 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋak̚/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 è
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 ngok6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 萼
Reading # 1/1
No. 9465
Phonetic
component		 屰
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 咢
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːɡ/

Definitions

萼

  1. calyx

Compounds
  • 萼花
  • 華萼／华萼
  • 離萼／离萼

Japanese

Kanji
萼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. calyx
  2. cup

Readings
  • Go-on: がく (gaku)
  • Kan-on: がく (gaku)
  • Kun: うてな (utena, 萼)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
萼
がく
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 萼 (MC ŋɑk̚).

Pronunciation

Noun

萼(がく) • (gaku) 

  1. (botany) a calyx (collective term for sepals)
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 萼片(がくへん) (gakuhen, “sepal”)
  • 紫(シ)萼(ガク) (shigaku)
  • 宿存(しゅくそん)萼(がく) (shukuson-gaku)
  • 副萼(ふくがく) (fukugaku)
  • 紅萼(ベニガク) (benigaku)
See also

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
萼
うてな
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Extension of 台 (utena, “tower, stand”), to a part of a flower.

Pronunciation

Noun

萼(うてな) • (utena) 

  1. (botany) a calyx (collective term for sepals)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

萼 • (ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune–Reischauer ak, Yale ak)

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