茜

茜 (radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿一金田 (TMCW), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱艹西)

• 𣺋

• KangXi: page 1027, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30871
• Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3200, character 12
• Unihan data for U+831C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰɯːns) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl).

茜

1. (～草) madder (Rubia cordifolia)
2. dark red
3. to dye red

茜

1. Used in personal names and transcription.

Variant of 荽.

茜

1. Only used in 芫茜.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. madder

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: あかね (akane, 茜)

From Old Japanese.

Originally a compound of 赤 (aka, “red”) +‎ 根 (ne, “root”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あかね [àkáné] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [a̠ka̠ne̞]

茜 (hiragana あかね, katakana アカネ, rōmaji akane)

1. a madder plant of the genus Rubia, especially the Japanese madder, Rubia argyi
2. a dye made from the roots of a madder plant
3. Short for 茜色 (akane-iro): madder red
4. a red dragonfly

   Synonym: 赤とんぼ (aka tonbo)

• ガランス (garansu)

茜 (hiragana あかね, rōmaji Akane)

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Middle Chinese 茜 (MC t͡sʰen^H).

茜 (hiragana せん, rōmaji Sen)

1. a female given name
2. a surname

茜 (thiến)

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