# 菉

| 菉 | U+83C9, &#33737; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83C9 |
| ← 菈 [U+83C8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 菊 → [U+83CA] |
| 菉 | U+F93E, &#63806; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F93E |
| ← 綠 [U+F93D] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 錄 → [U+F93F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

菉 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓一水 (TNME) or 廿女弓水 (TVNE), four-corner 4423$_2$, composition ⿱艹录)
* the green bamboo
* greenish bamboo

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1037, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31152
* Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3241, character 9
* Unihan data for U+83C9
* Unihan data for U+F93E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 剝 | *proːɡ |
| 龣 | *kroːɡ, *roːɡ |
| 祿 | *roːɡ |
| 淥 | *roːɡ, *roɡ |
| 睩 | *roːɡ |
| 琭 | *roːɡ |
| 箓 | *roːɡ |
| 碌 | *roːɡ, *roɡ |
| 盝 | *roːɡ |
| 娽 | *roːɡ, *roɡ |
| 彔 | *b·roːɡ |
| 趢 | *roːɡ, *roɡ |
| 簶 | *roːɡ |
| 綠 | *roɡ |
| 逯 | *roɡ |
| 錄 | *roɡ |
| 醁 | *roɡ |
| 騄 | *roɡ |
| 菉 | *roɡ |
| 籙 | *roɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roɡ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ).

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 菉 – see 綠 (“green; to become green; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 綠).

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 菉 – see 彔 (“to carve wood; filter”). (This character is a variant form of 彔).

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lù (lu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): luk$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lù
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lù
*** Wade–Giles: lu$^4$
*** Yale: lù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
*** Palladius: лу (lu)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: luk$^6$
*** Yale: luhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: luk$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /lʊk̚²/
* Middle Chinese: ljowk
Rime :
| Character | 菉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 燭 (8) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力玉切 |
| Baxter | ljowk |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɨok̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /liok̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /liok̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /luawk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /liok̚/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭwok̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /li̯wok̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | luk$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ok/
    (Zhengzhang): /*roɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 菉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lù |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ljowk › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ok/ |
| English | (name of a 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 | 菉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8560 |
| Phonetic component | 录 |
| Rime group | 屋 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 録 |
| Old Chinese | /*roɡ/ |

#### Definitions

菉
* small carpetgrass (Arthraxon hispidus)
    Synonym: 藎／荩 (jìn)
* Used in place names
    苔菉 ― Táilù ― Tailu (a town of Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)

### Compounds

* 梅菉 (Méilù)
* 苔菉 (Táilù, “Tailu”)
* 菉豆 (lǜdòu)
* 菉豆眼

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ろく (roku)
* Kan-on: りょく (ryoku)
* Kun: かりやす (kariyasu)

## Korean
### Hanja

菉 • (rok>nok) (hangeul 록>녹, revised rok>nok, McCune–Reischauer rok>nok, Yale lok>nok)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

菉: Hán Nôm readings: lục
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