莧

See also: 苋 and 萈
莧 U+83A7, 莧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83A7
← 莦
[U+83A6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莨 →
[U+83A8]

Translingual

Han character

莧 (radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿月山山 (TBUU), four-corner 44216, composition ⿱艹見)

Usage notes
  • This character contains the grass radical (艹) and is not to be confused with visually similar 萈 (U+8408) which contains the ram's horn component (⻀) and an additional 丶 stroke on the top right of 儿 below 目.

Derived characters
  • 𦎽, 寛, 𪢯

References
  • KangXi: page 1035, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31074
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3218, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+83A7

Chinese
trad. 莧
simp. 苋

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 莧
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (見) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涀 *ɡeːlʔ, *kʰeːns, *ɡeːns
莧 *ɡreːns
粯 *ɡreːns
晛 *ŋl'eːns, *ɡeːnʔ
筧 *keːnʔ
絸 *keːnʔ
垷 *keːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
挸 *keːnʔ
見 *keːns, *ɡeːns
俔 *kʰeːns, *ɡeːnʔ
蜆 *kʰeːns, *qʰeːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
硯 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋɡeːns
峴 *ɡeːnʔ
哯 *ɡeːnʔ
睍 *ɡeːnʔ
現 *ɡeːns

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 莧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 侯襇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦəɨnH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣænH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 莧
Reading # 1/1
No. 6185
Phonetic
component		 見
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːns/
Notes 見爾雅

Definitions

莧

  1. edible amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor)

Compounds
  • 野莧菜／野苋菜

Japanese

Kanji
莧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. amaranth; amaranthus

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

莧 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, Yale hyen)

  1. (비름): amaranth, amaranthus

Vietnamese

Han character

莧 (hiện)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References
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