# 蕨

| 蕨 | U+8568, &#34152; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8568 |
| ← 蕧 [U+8567] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蕩 → [U+8569] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蕨 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿一廿人 (TMTO), four-corner 4428$_2$, composition ⿱艹厥)
* Pteris aquilina (common bracken)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 41
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32001
* Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 26
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3289, character 8
* Unihan data for U+8568

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鱖 | *krods, *kod |
| 蹶 | *krods, *krod, *kod |
| 厥 | *kod, *kud |
| 欮 | *kod |
| 蕨 | *kod |
| 劂 | *kod |
| 瘚 | *kod |
| 蟨 | *kod |
| 蟩 | *kod |
| 橜 | *kod, *ɡod |
| 撅 | *kod, *ɡod |
| 闕 | *kʰod |
| 橛 | *ɡod |
| 鷢 | *ɡod |
| 蹷 | *ɡod |
| 憠 | *ɡod |

### Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan སྐྱས་མ (skyas ma) ~ སྐྱེས་མ (skyes ma, “fern”) (Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jué (jue$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jué
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
*** Wade–Giles: chüeh$^2$
*** Yale: jywé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
*** Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kyut$^3$
*** Yale: kyut
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kyt$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: küd$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰyːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: kjwot
Rime :
| Character | 蕨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 月 (68) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 居月切 |
| Baxter | kjwot |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʉɐt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷiɐt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kiuɐt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kuat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kiuɐt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭwɐt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ki̯wɐt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jue |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gyut$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.kot/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kod/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蕨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jué |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kjwot › |
| Old Chinese | /*Cə.kot/ |
| English | bracken (a kind of edible fern) |
| 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 | 蕨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7231 |
| Phonetic component | 欮 |
| Rime group | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 厥 |
| Old Chinese | /*kod/ |

### Definitions

蕨
* bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Zhì bǐ nánshān, yán cǎi qí jué. [Pinyin]
    I ascended that hill in the south, and gathered the brackens.

#### See also

* 薇 (wēi, “royal fern”)

#### Compounds

* 松葉蕨 / 松叶蕨
* 槲蕨
* 水蕨
* 烏毛蕨 / 乌毛蕨
* 蕨菜 (juécài)
* 蕗蕨
* 蕨類 / 蕨类 (juélèi)
* 蕨類植物 / 蕨类植物
* 薇蕨
* 藜蕨
* 鐵線蕨 / 铁线蕨
* 鬃蕨 (zōngjué)
* 鹵蕨 / 卤蕨 (lǔjué)

### Descendants

* → Proto-Tai: *kuːtᴰ
** Thai: กูด (gùut)
* → Vietnamese: guột

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: こち (kochi)
* Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
* Kun: わらび (warabi, 蕨)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 蕨
* わらび Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi

### Noun

蕨(わらび) or 蕨(ワラビ) • (warabi)
* Japanese bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum subsp. japonicum

#### Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

#### Derived terms

* 蕨餅(わらびもち) (warabimochi)
* 蕨粉(わらびこ) (warabiko)
* 蕨糊(わらびのり) (warabinori)
* 犬蕨(いぬわらび) (inuwarabi)
* 熊蕨(くまわらび) (kumawarabi)
* 水蕨(みずわらび) (mizuwarabi)

### Proper noun

蕨(わらび) • (Warabi)
* Warabi (a city in Saitama prefecture, Japan)

## Korean
### Hanja

蕨 • (gwol) (hangeul 궐, revised gwol, McCune–Reischauer kwŏl, Yale kwel)
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