苧

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 宁 (OC *da, *daʔ).

This character simplified to 苎 and simplified form 薴.

苧 (radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿十一弓 (TJMN) or X廿十一弓 (XTJMN), four-corner 4420₁, composition ⿱艹宁)

• KangXi: page 1024, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30798
• Dae Jaweon: page 1483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3196, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82E7

苧

1. Boehmeria nivea

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 薴)

• Go-on: じょ (jo)^{←ぢよ (dyo, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょ (cho)^{←ちよ (tyo, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ま (ma)
• Kun: お (o, 苧)^{←を (wo, historical)}; むし (mushi); からむし (karamushi, 苧); からんし (karanshi, 苧); こるむし (korumushi, 苧)

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [o̞]

• 麻

苧 (hiragana お, rōmaji o, historical hiragana を)

1. hemp or ramie
2. thread made from the outer husk of the stems of hemp or ramie
3. a textile made from this thread

• (hemp): 麻 (あさ) (asa)
• (ramie): 苧 (からむし) (karamushi)
• (thread, in general): 糸 (いと) (ito)

From Old Japanese. Possibly the original name for the plant, or for the fiber from this plant. Possibly also cognate with Ainu モセ (mose), ムセ (muse, “nettle plant; bast fiber in general”)

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝɕi]

• 枲 (rare), 帔 (rare)

苧 (hiragana むし, rōmaji mushi)

1. (obsolete) old name for karamushi: the ramie plant, Boehmeria nivea var. nipononivea
2. short for 帔 (むしのたれぎぬ), 枲 (むし)の垂 (た)れ衣 (ぎぬ) (mushi no tareginu), a kind of veil made of ramie and worn from the brim of a hat by women from the Heian period through the Kamakura period

Appears to be a compound of 殻 (kara, “husk”) +‎ 苧 (mushi, “ramie fiber”).

Some sources suggest that the mushi component derives from 蒸し (mushi, “steaming”), from verb 蒸す (musu, “to steam something; to be steamy or muggy”). However, ramie is not processed using steam, so these are more likely to be folk etymologies.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) から​むし [kàráꜜmùshì] (Nakadaka – [2])[2][3]
  • (Tokyo) からむし [kàrámúshí] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾa̠mɯ̟ᵝɕi]

• 苧麻, 紵 (rare), 枲 (rare), 葈 (rare)

苧 (hiragana からむし, rōmaji karamushi)

1. the ramie plant, Boehmeria nivea (syn. Boehmeria nipononivea)
2. a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. a textile made from this thread

   • circa 800, Shibunritsu Ongi (page 47)[4]

     蒭麻衣 加良牟斯衣

• 苧 (からむし)頭 (ず)巾 (きん) (karamushi zukin): a 頭巾 (zukin, “headcloth, bandana”) made from ramie

• Boehmeria at The Plant List

/karamuɕi/ → /karanɕi/

Alteration from karamushi. Rare and obsolete reading.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾã̠ɰ̃ɕi]

苧 (hiragana からんし, rōmaji karanshi)

1. (rare, obsolete) the ramie plant
2. (rare, obsolete) a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. (rare, obsolete) a textile made from this thread

/karamuɕi/ → /korumuɕi/

Alteration from karamushi. Rare and obsolete reading.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ɾɯ̟ᵝmɯ̟ᵝɕi]

苧 (hiragana こるむし, rōmaji korumushi)

1. (rare, obsolete) the ramie plant
2. (rare, obsolete) a thread made from the fibers of this plant
3. (rare, obsolete) a textile made from this thread
   • circa 800, Shibunritsu Ongi (page 47)[4]

     纎麻衣 古流牟斯衣

From Middle Chinese 薴 (MC ɳˠɛŋ), but read with the on'yomi from 麻 (ma, “hemp”). Compare modern Mandarin 苧 (zhù), 麻 (má).

• Kan’yōyomi
  • IPA^(key): [ma̠]

• 麻

苧 (hiragana ま, rōmaji ma)

1. the ramie or hemp plant or fiber

From Middle Chinese 薴 (MC ɳˠɛŋ). Compare modern Mandarin 苧 (zhù).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [t͡ɕo̞]

苧 (hiragana ちょ, rōmaji cho)

1. the ramie or hemp plant or fiber

苧 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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苧 (trữ)

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