蕪

See also: 芜

蕪	U+856A, 蕪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-856A

← 蕩
[U+8569]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蕫 →
[U+856B]

Translingual

Han character

蕪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿人廿火 (TOTF), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿱艹無)

Derived characters

𦢲

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1059, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32004
Dae Jaweon: page 1522, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3291, character 8
Unihan data for U+856A

Chinese

trad.		蕪
simp.		芜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蕪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
墲	m̥ʰaː, maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	hmaː, ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	ma, maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	ma, maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wú (wu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bû

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wú
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wú
  - Wade–Giles: wu²
  - Yale: wú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
  - Palladius: у (u)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mou⁴
  - Yale: mòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bû
  - Tâi-lô: bû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: buu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bu²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bu²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bu²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu²³/

Middle Chinese: mju

Rime
Character	蕪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武夫切
Baxter	mju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/mio/
Shao Rongfen	/mio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆/
Li Rong	/mio/
Wang Li	/mĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)a/

(Zhengzhang): /*ma/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蕪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú
Middle Chinese	‹ mju ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)a/
English	overgrown with weeds
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	蕪
Reading #	1/1
No.	13120
Phonetic component	無
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	無
Old Chinese	/*ma/

Definitions

蕪 (literary or in compounds)

full of weed; overgrown with weed [from Old Chinese]
- 朝甚除，田甚蕪，倉甚虛。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  朝甚除，田甚芜，仓甚虚。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: Tao Te Ching, 4^th century BCE
  Cháo shèn chú, tián shèn wú, cāng shèn xū. [Pinyin]
  The court is very well-kept, but the fields are much overgrown with weed and the granaries are truly empty.
- 曾不知夏之為丘兮，孰兩東門之可蕪？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  曾不知夏之为丘兮，孰两东门之可芜？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE
  Céng bù zhī xià zhī wèi qiū xī, shú liǎng dōng mén zhī kě wú? [Pinyin]
  Who would ever have known that the royal mounds would turn into hillocks, and that the two eastern gates could become overgrown with weed?
disused cropland; thickly-grown grassland; weed-choked land [from Old Chinese]
(figurative) of a turgid literary style [from Middle Chinese]

Compounds

刪蕪就簡 / 删芜就简
去蕪存菁 / 去芜存菁 (qùwúcúnjīng)
平蕪 / 平芜
榛蕪 / 榛芜
疏蕪 / 疏芜
綠蕪 / 绿芜
繁蕪 / 繁芜
舉要刪蕪 / 举要删芜
荒蕪 / 荒芜 (huāngwú)
蕪俚 / 芜俚
蕪劣 / 芜劣
蕪淺 / 芜浅
蕪湖 / 芜湖 (Wúhú)
蕪穢 / 芜秽 (wúhuì)
蕪累 / 芜累
蕪菁 / 芜菁 (wújīng)
蕃蕪 / 蕃芜
蕪雜 / 芜杂 (wúzá)
蕪駁 / 芜驳
薞蕪 / 薞芜 (sūnwú)
蘅蕪 / 蘅芜
蘼蕪 / 蘼芜 (míwú)
青蕪 / 青芜

Japanese

Kanji

蕪

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

turnip

Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぶ (bu)
Kun: かぶ (kabu, 蕪)、かぶら (kabura, 蕪)、あれる (areru, 蕪れる)

Compounds

赤蕪(あかかぶ) (akakabu)
蕪菁(かぶら) (kabura): turnip
蕪菜(かぶな) (kabuna), 蕪菜(かぶらな) (kaburana): turnip
蕪鮨(かぶらずし) (kaburazushi)
蕪菜(かぶらな) (kaburana)
蕪無(かぶらなし) (kaburanashi)
蕪引(かぶらひ)き (kaburahiki)
蕪骨(かぶらぼね) (kaburabone)
蕪蒸(かぶらむ)し (kaburamushi)
菊花蕪(きくかかぶ) (kikukakabu)
荒蕪(こうぶ) (kōbu)
小蕪(こかぶ) (kokabu), 小蕪菁(こかぶ) (kokabu)
聖護院蕪菁(しょうごいんかぶら) (shōgoinkabura)
スウェーデン蕪(かぶ) (suwēdenkabu)
天王寺蕪(てんのうじかぶら) (tennōjikabura)
繁蕪(はんぶ) (hanbu)
蕪穢(ぶあい) (buai)
蕪稿(ぶこう) (bukō)
蕪雑(ぶざつ) (buzatsu)
蕪辞(ぶじ) (buji)
蕪陋(ぶろう) (burō)
平蕪(へいぶ) (heibu)
和布蕪(めかぶ) (mekabu)
和布蕪(めかぶら) (mekabura)
緑蕪(りょくぶ) (ryokubu): lush green grass or weeds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蕪
かぶ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かぶ [kàbú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟]

Noun

蕪(かぶ) • (kabu)

turnip

Synonyms

蕪菜(かぶな) (kabuna), 菘(すずな) (suzuna), (archaic) 青菜(あおな) (aona)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蕪
かぶら Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蕪菁

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かぶら [kàbúrá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ɾa̠]

Noun

蕪(かぶら) • (kabura)

turnip

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蕪 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕪: Hán Nôm readings: vu

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[DJR-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] 2.0 ^2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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