茨

茨 (radical 140, 艸+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿戈一人 (TIMO) or 廿一一人 (TMMO), four-corner 4418₂, composition ⿱艹次)

• KangXi: page 1028, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30896
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3208, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8328

茨

1. caltrop, puncture vine, Tribulus terrestris

茨

1. (Teochew) Alternative form of 薯 (“potato, sweet potato and yam”).

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. briar, bramble

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: いばら (ibara, 茨, Jōyō, uncommon); うばら (ubara, 茨); うまら (umara, 茨); むばら (mubara, 茨)
• Nanori: あし (ashi); えばら (ebara); ばら (bara); まつ (matsu); まん (man)

茨 (ibara, ubara, umara, mubara): a thorny shrub.

/ubara/ → /ibara/

Sound shift from Old Japanese ubara (see below).[1] Now the modern version of this term.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) いばら [ìbárá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [iba̠ɾa̠]

• 荊, 棘

茨 (hiragana いばら, rōmaji ibara)

1. a thorny bush or shrub: a briar, a bramble
   • 1999 May 27, “魔ま界かいのイバラ [Thorns of the Demon World]”, in Vol.3, Konami:

     魔 (ま)界 (かい)に生 (せい)息 (そく)するイバラ。無 (む)理 (り)に通 (とお)ろうとする者 (もの)にからみつく。

     Makai ni seisoku suru ibara. Muri ni tōrō to suru mono ni karamitsuku.

     A thorny plant that grows in the demon world. It constricts any unwary passerby.

2. (regional, chiefly Kansai) a thorn on a plant
3. general name for wild roses
4. (figuratively) suffering, hardship, distress
5. (architecture, construction) the point where two curved lines come together, such as the tip of a cusped gable
6. (historical, slang) during the Edo period, a downmarket prostitute

• (thorn): 刺 (とげ), 棘 (とげ) (toge); 針 (はり), 鍼 (はり) (hari)
• (downmarket prostitute): 端 (はし)女 (じょ)郎 (ろう) (hashijorō)

From Old Japanese.[1][2] Used in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[3]

Appears alongside the umara form (see below), suggesting possible prenasalization, perhaps realized as */umbara/.

Superseded by ibara above.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝba̠ɾa̠]

茨 (hiragana うばら, rōmaji ubara)

1. (archaic) a thorny bush or shrub: a briar, a bramble
2. (archaic) general name for wild roses

• 薔 (ば)薇 (ら) (bara)

From Old Japanese.[1][2] Used in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[4]

Appears alongside the ubara form (see above), suggesting possible prenasalization, perhaps realized as */umbara/.

Superseded by ibara above.

茨 (hiragana うまら, rōmaji umara)

1. (archaic) a thorny bush or shrub: a briar, a bramble
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 47)

     翹棘 翹尅 音交 訓久波多川 棘 音里 訓宇末良

2. (archaic) general name for wild roses

Appears in the Heian period,[1] apparently as a shift from ubara. Used in The Tales of Ise dating to the early 900s CE.[2]

Considering the earlier free alternation between ubara and umara, suggesting a possible prenasalized pronunciation such as */umbara/, this mubara may have arisen from an alternative spelling to clarify nasalization. Old Japanese orthography had no unambiguous means of specifying the nasal coda consonant ん (n), using む (mu) instead. In fact, the modern kana ん (n) developed from a hentaigana form of む (mu).

Superseded by ibara above.

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

• 荊

茨 (hiragana むばら, rōmaji mubara)

1. (archaic) a thorny bush or shrub: a briar, a bramble
2. (archaic) general name for wild roses

• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), →ISBN.

茨 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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茨 (tỳ, tì)

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