秧

秧 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中月大 (HDLBK), four-corner 2593₀, composition ⿰禾央)

1. rice seedlings, young rice plants

• 𬝣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 851, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24996
• Dae Jaweon: page 1276, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2599, character 6
• Unihan data for U+79E7

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ): semantic 禾 (“grain; cereal”) + phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ).

Attested relatively late, in the Tang dynasty (Sagart, 2011).

Haudricourt and Strecker (1991) propose a Hmong-Mien origin, but Sagart (2011) argues that the direction of borrowing should be the other way around. He instead proposes an internal Chinese origin, suggesting that it is a cognate of 英 (OC *qraŋ, “grasses at their growing/flowering stage, before producing seeds”) without a -r- infix.

Relationship with Tibeto-Burman items is unclear, due to mismatching initials: Tibetan ལྗང་བ (ljang ba, “shoot, sprout”), ལྗང་བུ (ljang bu, “rice seedling”), Lepcha ᰊᰜᰤᰨᰵ (ta-lyong, “young blades of corn, rice”) (Schuessler, 2007).

秧

1. rice seedling
2. sprout; shoot; seedling
3. vine; stalk
4. young animal; -ling
5. (literary) to transplant rice seedlings
6. (dialectal) to grow; to cultivate; to raise
7. a surname

• “秧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “秧”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 254.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}
• Kun: なえ (nae, 秧)、うえる (ueru, 秧る)

秧 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)

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秧: Hán Việt readings: ương^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}, ưởng^[5]
秧: Nôm readings: ương^[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of ương (“seedling, sprout”)