蔠

蔠 U+8520, 蔠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8520 ← 蔟 [U+851F] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔡 → [U+8521]

Translingual

Han character

蔠 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火卜 (TVFY), four-corner 4493₃, composition ⿱艹終)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1055, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31816
• Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3287, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8520

Chinese

trad.		蔠
simp.		𰱛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
疼	*dɯːŋ, *duːŋ
冬	*tuːŋ
苳	*tuːŋ
笗	*tuːŋ
炵	*tʰuːŋ, *duːŋ
佟	*duːŋ
鼕	*duːŋ
鉖	*duːŋ
終	*tjuŋ
螽	*tjuŋ
鼨	*tjuŋ
柊	*tjuŋ
鴤	*tjuŋ
泈	*tjuŋ
蔠	*tjuŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjuŋ) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 終 (OC *tjuŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng

Rime
Character	蔠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職戎切
Baxter	tsyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蔠
Reading #	1/1
No.	2434
Phonetic component	冬
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	終
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

蔠

1. Only used in 蔠葵／𰱛葵 (zhōngkuí).