# 薹

| 薹 | U+85B9, &#34233; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85B9 |
| ← 薸 [U+85B8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 薺 → [U+85BA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

薹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿土口土 (TGRG), four-corner 4410$_4$, composition ⿱艹臺)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1063, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32204
* Dae Jaweon: page 1527, character 33
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3310, character 4
* Unihan data for U+85B9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 懛 | *tɯː |
| 儓 | *tʰɯːs, *dɯː |
| 臺 | *dɯː |
| 擡 | *dɯː |
| 薹 | *dɯː |
| 嬯 | *dɯː |
| 檯 | *dɯː |
| 籉 | *dɯː |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *dɯː): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 臺 (OC *dɯː).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tái (tai$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): toi$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tâi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): dai$^5$ / tai$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$de
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tái
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tái
*** Wade–Giles: tʻai$^2$
*** Yale: tái
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tair
*** Palladius: тай (taj)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: toi$^4$
*** Yale: tòih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: toi$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: toi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɔːi̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâi
*** Tâi-lô: tâi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: daai
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tai²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tai²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tai²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: dai$^5$ / tai$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâi / thâi
*** Sinological IPA : /tai⁵⁵/, /tʰai⁵⁵/
* dai5 - vernacular;
* tai5 - literary.
* Middle Chinese: doj
Rime :
| Character | 薹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 咍 (41) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒哀切 |
| Baxter | doj |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dʌi/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dəi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɒi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəj/ |
| Li Rong | /dᴀi/ |
| Wang Li | /dɒi/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /dʱɑ̆i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tái |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | toi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*dɯː/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 薹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12308 |
| Phonetic component | 臺 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 臺 |
| Old Chinese | /*dɯː/ |

### Definitions

薹
* (～草) sedge (Carex)
* (～子) an erect peduncle or shoot of a herbaceous plant, especially when it is tender and edible
    菜薹 ― càitái ― flowering shoot of a brassica
    蒜薹 ― suàntái ― garlic scape
    蔞蒿薹子／蒌蒿薹子 ― lóuhāotáizǐ ― spring shoot of Artemisia selengensis
    抽薹 ― chōutái ― to bolt
* Used in 蕓薹／芸薹 (yúntái).

#### Usage notes

Note that 薹 is not simplified to 苔 in Mainland China and Japan.

### Synonyms

* (peduncle or flowering stem): 莛 (tíng), 蕻 (hòng)

### Compounds

* 菜薹 (càitái)
* 蒜薹 (suàntái)
* 蕓薹 / 芸薹 (yúntái)
* 薹笠
* 薹草
* 薹菜

### References

* “薹”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): たい (tai)、だい (dai)
* Kun: あぶらな (aburana)、とう (tō)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

薹: Hán Nôm readings: đài
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