芽

芽 U+82BD, 芽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82BD
← 芼
[U+82BC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 芾 →
[U+82BE]

Translingual

Han character

芽 (radical 140, 艸+4 in Chinese, 艸+5 in Japanese, 7 strokes in Chinese, 8 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 廿一女竹 (TMVH), four-corner 44241, composition ⿱艹牙)

References

  • KangXi: page 1021, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30860
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3179, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+82BD

Chinese

trad. 芽
simp. # 芽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (牙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邪 *ljaː, *laː
衺 *ljaː
牙 *ŋraː
芽 *ŋraː
齖 *ŋraː, *ŋraːs
呀 *ŋraː, *hŋraː
枒 *ŋraː, *ŋraːs
雅 *ŋraːʔ
厊 *ŋraːʔ
庌 *ŋraːʔ
訝 *ŋraːs
迓 *ŋraːs
砑 *ŋraːs
犽 *ŋraːs
疨 *hŋraː
岈 *hŋraː
谺 *hŋraː
颬 *hŋraː
鴉 *qraː
釾 *laː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraː) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː) – an aspect of plants.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • gê/gêe - vernacular;
  • gâ - literary.
Rime
Character 芽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ŋa/
Wang
Li		 /ŋa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yá
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 芽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-ɢˤ<r>a/
English shoot, sprout

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 芽
Reading # 1/1
No. 14178
Phonetic
component		 牙
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 牙
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋraː/

Definitions

芽

  1. bud, shoot, sprout

Compounds

  • 發芽／发芽 (fāyá)
  • 白雪黃芽／白雪黄芽
  • 肉芽 (ròuyá)
  • 胚芽 (pēiyá)
  • 胚芽米
  • 胚芽鞘
  • 胞芽
  • 胞芽杯
  • 腋芽
  • 芽兒／芽儿
  • 芽孢
  • 芽接法
  • 芽眼
  • 芽茶
  • 芽菜 (yácài, “bean sprout”)

Japanese

Kanji

芽

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. bud, sprout, shoot

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
芽
め
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

芽 (hiragana め, rōmaji me)

  1. bud, sprout, shoot

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

芽 (nha)

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