莪

莪 (radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹手戈 (THQI), four-corner 4455₃, composition ⿱艹我)

• 𠌾, 𪦙

• 䕏 (Variant form)

• KangXi: page 1035, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31077
• Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3219, character 15
• Unihan data for U+83AA

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːl) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).

莪

1. (botany) Incarvillea sinensis

   Synonyms: 角蒿, 莪蒿, 萝蒿

2. ^† (botany) Alternative form of 菌 (jùn, “mushroom”).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03884
• “莪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (botany) name of two different plants in the Asteraceae family

• On (unclassified): が (ga)
• Kun: きつねあざみ (kitsuneazami); つのよもぎ (tsunoyomogi)

From Middle Chinese 莪 (MC ŋɑ, “Incarvillea sinensis”).

• On’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

• 菻, 狐薊

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

莪 (hiragana きつねあざみ, rōmaji kitsuneazami)

1. (botany) type of thistle (Hemisteptia lyrata)

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

莪 (hiragana つのよもぎ, rōmaji tsunoyomogi)

1. (botany) name of plant in the Artemisia genus

莪 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)

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莪 (ngò, nga)

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