# 櫱

| 櫱 | U+6AF1, &#27377; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AF1 |
| ← 櫰 [U+6AF0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 櫲 → [U+6AF2] |

## Translingual
### Alternative forms

* In mainland China, Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the upper left component is written 屮 while the bottom component is written 木 which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
* In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper left component is written 山 while the bottom component is written 𣎳.

### Han character

櫱 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山十木 (UJD), four-corner 4490$_4$, composition ⿱辥木(GJK) or ⿱⿰𡶫辛𣎳(HT))

#### Related characters

* 蘖 (Preferred form in mainland China)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 561, character 33
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15863
* Dae Jaweon: page 950, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1318, character 11
* Unihan data for U+6AF1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 躠 | *sŋaːd |
| 嶭 | *ŋaːd, *ŋeːd |
| 櫱 | *ŋaːd, *ŋred |
| 薛 | *sŋed |
| 辥 | *sŋed |
| 孼 | *ŋred |
| 蘖 | *ŋred |
| 蠥 | *ŋred |
| 孽 | *ŋred |
| 糵 | *ŋred |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːd, *ŋred): phonetic 辥 (OC *sŋed) + semantic 木 (“wood; tree”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): niè (nie$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jit$^6$ / jip$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: niè
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: niè
*** Wade–Giles: nieh$^4$
*** Yale: nyè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
*** Palladius: не (ne)
*** Sinological IPA : /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jit$^6$ / jip$^6$
*** Yale: yiht / yihp
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jit$^9$ / jip$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yid$^6$ / yib$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːt̚²/, /jiːp̚²/
* jit6 - colloquial;
* jip6 - variant.
* Middle Chinese: ngat, ngjet
Rime :
| Character | 櫱 | 櫱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 曷 (63) | 薛 (83) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 五割切 | 魚列切 |
| Baxter | ngat | ngjet |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋˠiᴇt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋᵚiɛt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋiæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋat̚/ | /ŋiat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋjɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋĭɛt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋɑt̚/ | /ŋi̯ɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | è | yè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngot$^6$ | jit$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)at/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːd/, /*ŋred/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 櫱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | niè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngjet › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋ(r)at/ |
| English | (shoots from) tree stump |
| 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 | 櫱 | 櫱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 14059 | 14063 |
| Phonetic component | 薛 | 薛 |
| Rime group | 月 | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 嶭 | 孼 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋaːd/ | /*ŋred/ |

### Definitions

櫱
* (alt. form 蘖) sprout growing from a tree stump
* Alternative form of 蠥 (niè)
* Alternative form of 孽 (niè)
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 冰櫱 / 冰蘖
* 分櫱 / 分蘖
* 櫱枝 / 蘖枝
* 牙櫱 / 牙蘖
* 由櫱 / 由蘖
* 萌櫱 / 萌蘖
* 酒醴麴櫱 / 酒醴曲蘖

### References

* “櫱”, 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), B01897

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): げつ (getsu)、げち (gechi)、がつ (gatsu)、がち (gachi)
* Kun: ひこばえ (hikobae, 櫱)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 櫱
* ひこばえ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 櫱 – see the following entry. :
| 【蘖ひこばえ】H | [noun] sprouts from the stump of a tree |
(This term, 櫱, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :