# 萇

| 萇 | U+8407, &#33799; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8407 |
| ← 萆 [U+8406] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 萈 → [U+8408] |

## Translingual
### Han character

萇 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿尸一女 (TSMV), four-corner 4473$_2$, composition ⿱艹長)
* Averrhora carambola
* a surname

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 30
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31256
* Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3227, character 10
* Unihan data for U+8407

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 張 | *taŋ, *taŋs |
| 餦 | *taŋ |
| 粻 | *taŋ |
| 漲 | *taŋ, *taŋʔ, *taŋs |
| 長 | *taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs |
| 脹 | *taŋs |
| 痮 | *taŋs |
| 帳 | *taŋs |
| 賬 | *taŋs |
| 倀 | *tʰaŋ, *rtaːŋs |
| 鼚 | *tʰaŋ |
| 鋹 | *tʰaŋʔ |
| 悵 | *tʰaŋs |
| 韔 | *tʰaŋs |
| 萇 | *daŋ |
| 瓺 | *daŋ, *daŋs |
| 棖 | *rdaːŋ |
| 掁 | *rdaːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daŋ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 長 (OC *taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cháng (chang$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): diòng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dyong$^1$ / dyeng$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiông
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cháng
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cháng
*** Wade–Giles: chʻang$^2$
*** Yale: cháng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charng
*** Palladius: чан (čan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: coeng$^4$
*** Yale: chèuhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cêng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: diòng
*** Sinological IPA : /tuoŋ⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dyong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tyɒŋ⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dyeng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tyøŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiông
*** Tâi-lô: tiông
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dioong
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ²³/
* Middle Chinese: drjang
Rime :
| Character | 萇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 直良切 |
| Baxter | drjang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖɨɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖiɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖɨaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡiaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡĭaŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȡʱi̯aŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | cháng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | coeng$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*daŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 萇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1277 |
| Phonetic component | 長 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 長 |
| Old Chinese | /*daŋ/ |

### Definitions

萇
* Used in 萇楚／苌楚 (chángchǔ).
* a surname

### Compounds

* 萇弘化碧 / 苌弘化碧
* 萇楚 / 苌楚 (chángchǔ)

### References

* “萇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03899
* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 703.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “苌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 26.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* type of plant

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)

## Korean
### Hanja

萇 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)
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