蕹

蕹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女土 (TYVG), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱艹雍)

• KangXi: page 1059, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32057
• Dae Jaweon: page 1523, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3306, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8579

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 雍 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋs).

From 壅 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs, “to heap soil around the roots of a plant”) according to the Compendium of Materia Medica:

時珍曰：蕹與壅同。此菜惟以壅成，故謂之壅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
时珍曰：蕹与壅同。此菜惟以壅成，故谓之壅。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

Shízhēn yuē: Wèng yǔ yōng tóng. Cǐ cài wéi yǐ yōng chéng, gù wèi zhī yōng. [Pinyin]

Shizhen said, 蕹 is the same as 壅. This vegetable can only grow by heaping soil around the roots, so it is called 壅.

蕹

1. water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)

蕹

1. ^† (of grass) thick; lush

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): よう (yō), ゆ (yu)
• Kun: あつめる (atsumeru)

蕹: Hán Nôm readings: ung, ủng

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