蓼

蓼 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿尸一竹 (TSMH), four-corner 4420₂, composition ⿱艹翏)

1. smartweed, polygonum

• 𡂕, 𤁸, 𥗀, 𨟆

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1053, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31744
• Dae Jaweon: page 1515, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3286, character 8
• Unihan data for U+84FC

• Unihan data for U+F9C2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 翏 (OC *ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws).

蓼

1. knotweed; smartweed (various plants in the family Polygonaceae, especially in the genera Polygonum and Persicaria)
2. (figurative) difficulty; hardship

蓼

1. (literary, of plants) tall

蓼

1. only used in 糾蓼／纠蓼

• “蓼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←れう (reu, historical)}、ろく (roku)
• Kan-on: りく (riku)、りょう (ryō)^{←れう (reu, historical)}
• Kun: たで (tade, 蓼)

From Old Japanese,^[1][2] possibly from Proto-Japonic *tantay on the basis of the obsolete noun 蓼水(ただみ) (tadami, “a broth made from knotweed that is added to miso”), in spite that very few Ryukyuan cognates exist and the first attestation of the compound was in the mid-Heian period.^[3]

Attested in the Man'yōshū of 759.^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) たで [tàdé] (Heiban – [0])^[2][4][5]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠de̞]

蓼(たで) or 蓼(タデ) • (tade) 

1. knotweed (Polygonaceae); jointweed, smartweed
2. water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)

• たら (tara, obsolete)

• 蓼(たで)食(く)う虫(むし)も好(す)き好(ず)き (tade kuu mushi mo sukizuki)

蓼 (eum 료 (ryo), word-initial (South Korea) 요 (yo))

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(Hyōgai kanji)

• Kun: た゚でぃ゚ー (tadī)

• IPA^(key): [tʰádɨ́ː]

蓼(た゚でぃ゚ー) (tadī) 

1. knotweed

• Uwano, Zendō (2017) “徳之島浅間方言のアクセント資料(3) [Accent Data of Tokunoshima Asama Dialect (3)]”, in NINJAL Research Papers, number 12, →DOI, pages 139-161

蓼: Hán Nôm readings: liễu

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• Nom Foundation

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Kun: たでぃ (tadi)

• IPA^(key): [tàdì]

蓼(たでぃ) (tadi) 

1. knotweed

• Kiku, Chiyo, Takahashi, Toshizō (2005) 与論方言辞典 [Yoron Dialect Dictionary], Tokyo: Musashinoshoin, →ISBN, page 288