櫱

See also: 蘖

櫱	U+6AF1, 櫱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AF1

← 櫰
[U+6AF0]

CJK Unified Ideographs

櫲 →
[U+6AF2]

Translingual

Alternative forms

In mainland China, Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the upper left component is written 屮 while the bottom component is written 木 which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper left component is written 山 while the bottom component is written 𣎳.

Han character

櫱 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山十木 (UJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱辥木(GJK) or ⿱⿰𡶫辛𣎳(HT))

Related characters

蘖 (Preferred form in mainland China)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 561, character 33
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15863
Dae Jaweon: page 950, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1318, character 11
Unihan data for U+6AF1

Chinese

trad.		櫱/蘖
simp.		蘖
2nd round simp.		𰰟
alternative forms		𣎴 ancient form 枿㮆𣖂𢮡𣎴 ancient form 枿㮆𣖂𢮡𣔏𣕀𣠌𣡌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
躠	*sŋaːd
嶭	ŋaːd, ŋeːd
櫱	ŋaːd, ŋred
薛	*sŋed
辥	*sŋed
孼	*ŋred
蘖	*ŋred
蠥	*ŋred
孽	*ŋred
糵	*ŋred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːd, *ŋred): phonetic 辥 (OC *sŋed) + semantic 木 (“wood; tree”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jit⁶ / jip⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): gia̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: niè
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: niè
  - Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
  - Yale: nyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
  - Palladius: не (ne)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jit⁶ / jip⁶
  - Yale: yiht / yihp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jit⁹ / jip⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yid⁶ / yib⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːt̚²/, /jiːp̚²/

Note:

jit6 - colloquial;
jip6 - variant.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gia̍t
  - Tâi-lô: gia̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: giat
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡiɛt̚²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡiɛt̚¹²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /ɡiɛt̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: ngat, ngjet

Rime
Character	櫱	櫱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	五割切	魚列切
Baxter	ngat	ngjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋat̚/	/ŋiat̚/
Li Rong	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋĭɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋɑt̚/	/ŋi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	è	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngot⁶	jit⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)at/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːd/, /*ŋred/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	niè
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjet ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)at/
English	(shoots from) tree stump
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	櫱	櫱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14059	14063
Phonetic component	薛	薛
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	嶭	孼
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːd/	/*ŋred/

Definitions

櫱

(alt. form 蘖) sprout growing from a tree stump
alternative form of 蠥 (niè)
alternative form of 孽 (niè)
a surname

Compounds

冰櫱 / 冰蘖
分櫱 / 分蘖 (fēnniè)
櫱枝 / 蘖枝
牙櫱 / 牙蘖
由櫱 / 由蘖
萌櫱 / 萌蘖
酒醴麴櫱 / 酒醴曲蘖

References

“櫱”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01897

Japanese

Kanji

櫱

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: がち (gachi)、げち (gechi)
Kan-on: がつ (gatsu)、げつ (getsu)
Kun: ひこばえ (hikobae, 櫱)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
櫱
ひこばえ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 櫱 – see the following entry.

【蘖ひこばえ】H

[noun] sprouts from the stump of a tree

(This term, 櫱, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“^▲櫱”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026