# 蓺

| 蓺 | U+84FA, &#34042; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84FA |
| ← 蓹 [U+84F9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蓻 → [U+84FB] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蓺 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿土土戈 (TGGI) or 難廿土土戈 (XTGGI), four-corner 4411$_7$, composition ⿱艹埶)

#### Derived terms

* 𣞕, 𬡵, 𤑔, 藝

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1052, character 37
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31742
* Dae Jaweon: page 1515, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3275, character 4
* Unihan data for U+84FA

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 褹 | *ŋr'eːds, *ŋeds |
| 勢 | *hŋjeds |
| 藝 | *ŋeds |
| 囈 | *ŋeds |
| 埶 | *ŋeds |
| 蓺 | *ŋeds |
| 槸 | *ŋeds |
| 爇 | *ŋʷjed |
| 褻 | *sŋed |
| 暬 | *sŋed |
| 熱 | *ŋjed |
| 槷 | *ŋeːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋeds): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 埶 (OC *ŋeds).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yì (yi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yì
*** Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yì
*** Wade–Giles: i$^4$
*** Yale: yì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngai$^6$
*** Yale: ngaih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngai$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngei$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɐi̯²²/
* Middle Chinese: ngjiejH
Rime :
| Character | 蓺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (35) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 魚祭切 |
| Baxter | ngjiejH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋiᴇi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋiɛi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋjæi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋiaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋiɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋĭɛi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋi̯ɛi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋet-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蓺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngjiej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋet-s/ (MC I!) |
| English | to plant |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蓺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15093 |
| Phonetic component | 埶 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 藝 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋeds/ |
| Notes | 同埶轉註字 |

#### Definitions

蓺
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to plant
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Yì má rú zhī hé? Héng cóng qí mǔ. [Pinyin]
    How do we proceed in planting hemp? The acres must be dressed lengthwise and crosswise.

#### Compounds

* 殺人如蓺 / 杀人如蓺

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 蓺 – see 藝 (“art; skill; talent; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 藝).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* art
* talent
* ability
* craft

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): げい (gei)

## Korean
### Hanja

蓺 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)
* plant
* fulfill
* conclude
* target

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蓺: Hán Nôm readings: nghệ
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