芸

芸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一戈 (TMMI), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱艹云)

• 𠊁, 𫰼, 𣶽, 𦓷, 𩸜, 𫶮, 𣦀, 𧅟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1021, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30741
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82B8

This character was originally independent from 蕓, but later is also used to simplify it in Simplified Chinese; in Japanese, it is the simplified form of 藝, which was simplified differently in Chinese.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢun): semantic 艸 + phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun).

芸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of vegetable
2. short for 芸香 (yúnxiāng)
3. used in 芸臺／芸台 (yúntái)
4. used in 芸芸 (yúnyún)
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 耘 (yún, “to weed”)
6. a surname

芸

1. deep yellow (like dried plants)

   • 苕之華，芸其黃矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     苕之华，芸其黄矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Tiáo zhī huá, yùn qí huáng yǐ. [Pinyin]

     The flowers of the bignonia are of a deep yellow.

Simplified Chinese. An analogization of simplifying 雲 / 云 (yún) into 云 (yún).

Derived from 藝.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 藝)

1. technique, art, craft, performance
2. short for 安芸国 (Aki no kuni, “Aki Province”)

• Go-on: げい (gei, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: げい (gei, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 藝 / 艺 (ngjiej^H, “art, skill”).

• (Tokyo) げー [géꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɡe̞ː]

芸(げい) • (gei) 

1. art, craft, technique, performance

   芸(げい)の肥(こ)やし

   gei no koyashi

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2. trick (of animals)

   犬(いぬ)に芸(げい)を教(おし)える

   inu ni gei o oshieru

   to teach a dog tricks

Originally derived from 蕓 into a separate character; not a shinjitai form.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. rue (herb)

• Go-on: うん (un)
• Kan-on: うん (un)

• 芸亭(うんてい) (Untei, Japan's first public library)

芸 • (un) (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune–Reischauer un, Yale wun)

1. rue, herb used to keep insects away
2. to cut grass or weeds
3. art
4. talent, ability, craft
5. technique
6. performance, acting
7. trick
8. stunt

芸: Hán Nôm readings: vân

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