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芽 (Kangxi radical 140,艸+4in Chinese, 艸+5in Japanese, 7 strokesin traditional Chinese, 8 strokesin mainland China and Japanese and Korean,cangjie input廿一女竹 (TMVH),four-corner44241,composition⿱艹牙)
| trad. | 芽 | |
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| simp.# | 芽 | |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*ŋraː): semantic 艹(“grass”) + phonetic 牙(OC*ŋraː).
Cognate with牙 (OC*ŋraː, “tooth”) (Schuessler, 2007).
| 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 |
| Baxter | ngae |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋˠa/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋᵚa/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋa/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋaɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋa/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋa/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋa/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yá |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngaa4 |
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 芽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yá |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngæ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-ɢˁ<r>a/ |
| English | shoot, sprout |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| 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/ |
芽
| Shinjitai | 芽 | |
| Kyūjitai [1] | 芽 芽or 芽+ ︀? | |
| 芽󠄀 芽+ 󠄀?(Adobe-Japan1) | ||
| 芽󠄄 芽+ 󠄄?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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| Kanji in this term |
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| 芽 |
| め Grade: 4 |
| kun'yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of芽 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term,芽, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
| Kanji in this term |
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| 芽 |
| が Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi |
FromMiddle Chinese芽 (MC ngae).
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

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