荇

荇 U+8347, 荇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8347
← 荆
[U+8346] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 荈 →
[U+8348]

Translingual

Han character

荇 (radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人弓 (THON), four-corner 44221, composition ⿱艹行)

  1. banana-plant

References
  • KangXi: page 1030, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30942
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3206, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8347

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 荇
variant forms 莕

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
筕 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
桁 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
行 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
胻 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡 *ɡraːŋ
蘅 *ɡraːŋ
珩 *ɡraːŋ
洐 *ɡraːŋ
荇 *ɡraːŋʔ
絎 *ɡraːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs).

Pronunciation

Definitions

荇

  1. Used in 荇菜 (xìngcài).

Compounds
  • 藻荇

Japanese

Kanji
荇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. yellow floating heart (nymphoides peltalum)

Readings
  • On (unclassified): こう (kō), ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kun: はなじゆんさい (hanajiyunsai)

Korean

Hanja

荇 • (haeng) (hangeul 행, revised haeng, McCune–Reischauer haeng, Yale hayng)

  1. Nymphoides peltata
  2. water chestnut
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