蕉

蕉 U+8549, 蕉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8549
← 蕈
[U+8548] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蕊 →
[U+854A]

Translingual

Han character

蕉 (radical 140 艸+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土火 (TOGF), four-corner 44331, composition ⿱艹焦)

References

  • KangXi: page 1057, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31937
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1520, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3292, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8549

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蕉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蕉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (焦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
癄 *ʔsrews
焦 *ʔsew
蕉 *ʔsew
鷦 *ʔsew
僬 *ʔsew, *ʔsews, *zew
噍 *ʔsew, *zews
膲 *ʔsew
鐎 *ʔsew, *zew
蟭 *ʔsew
燋 *ʔsew, *ʔsewɢ
醮 *ʔsews
潐 *ʔsews
趭 *ʔsews, *zews, *lews
樵 *zew
譙 *zew
憔 *zew
劁 *zew, *zews
顦 *zew
嶕 *zew
撨 *zew, *seːw
穛 *ʔsreːwɢ

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chio - vernacular;
  • chiau - literary.
Rime
Character 蕉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即消切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siaw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蕉
Reading # 1/1
No. 6342
Phonetic
component		 焦
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 焦
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsew/

Definitions

蕉

  1. † unsoaked hemp
  2. † abaca
  3. banana; plantain (any plant in Musaceae, especially the edible fruit) (Classifier: 根 m; 串 m; 把 m; 條／条 c; 梳 c; 弓 mn)
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 旅人蕉
  • 朱蕉
  • 松尾芭蕉
  • 甘蕉 (gānjiāo)
  • 石油蕉
  • 美人蕉
  • 芭蕉 (bājiāo)
  • 芭蕉布
  • 芭蕉扇
  • 芭蕉洞 (bājiāodòng)
  • 芭蕉科
  • 芭蕉芋
  • 蕉嶺縣／蕉岭县
  • 蕉布
  • 蕉扇
  • 蕉葉／蕉叶 (jiāoyè)
  • 蕉葛
  • 蕉藕
  • 蕉農／蕉农
  • 蕉鹿夢／蕉鹿梦
  • 蕉麻
  • 覆蕉尋鹿／覆蕉寻鹿
  • 覆鹿尋蕉／覆鹿寻蕉
  • 覆鹿遺蕉／覆鹿遗蕉
  • 香蕉 (xiāngjiāo)
  • 香蕉水 (xiāngjiāoshuǐ)
  • 香蕉油

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

蕉

  1. † Alternative form of 憔 (qiáo, “haggard”).
  2. † Alternative form of 樵 (qiáo, “firewood”).

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蕉 – see 𣟼.
(This character, 蕉, is a variant form of 𣟼.)

Japanese

Kanji

蕉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蕉 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕉 (tiêu)

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