芥
Meanings
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- 1.mustard
- 1.see 芥蓝[gài lán]
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Wiktionary
- 1.mustard greens (Brassica juncea)
- 2.small herbaceous plant
- 3.triviality
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kreːds): semantic 艸 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 介 (OC *kreːds) – a type of plant. The meaning "mustard green" is attested earliest in the Book of Rites; "small grass" in Zuo zhuan (Ai 1). Schuessler (2007) compares it to Middle Korean 갓 (kas), Proto-Southwestern Tai *ka:tᴰ (> Thai กาด (gàat), Lao ກາດ (kāt), Shan ၵၢတ်ႇ (kàat)), Proto-Vietic *kaːs (> Vietnamese cải, Muong cái, & Thavung kajh¹). However, all those foreign items might have been loaned from Late Old Chinese or Eastern Han Chinese (as proposed by Pittayaporn for *ka:tᴰ),
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Stroke order
Components
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