柊

柊 U+67CA, 柊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67CA ← 柉 [U+67C9] CJK Unified Ideographs 柋 → [U+67CB]

Translingual

Han character

柊 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水卜 (DHEY), four-corner 4793₃, composition ⿰木冬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 518, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14610
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1187, character 3
• Unihan data for U+67CA

Chinese

simp. and trad.		柊

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 柊树 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Osmanthus heterophyllus (English)

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
疼	*dɯːŋ, *duːŋ
冬	*tuːŋ
苳	*tuːŋ
笗	*tuːŋ
炵	*tʰuːŋ, *duːŋ
佟	*duːŋ
鼕	*duːŋ
鉖	*duːŋ
終	*tjuŋ
螽	*tjuŋ
鼨	*tjuŋ
柊	*tjuŋ
鴤	*tjuŋ
泈	*tjuŋ
蔠	*tjuŋ

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	柊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職戎切
Baxter	tsyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	柊
Reading #	1/1
No.	2431
Phonetic component	冬
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	終
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ / dung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹ / dung¹
    • Yale: jūng / dūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ / dung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ / dung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/, /tʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ/

Definitions

柊

1. holly osmanthus

Compounds

• 柊楑
• 柊樹 / 柊树 (zhōngshù)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C05078
• “柊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	柊
Kyūjitai [1]	柊󠄁 柊+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	柊󠄃 柊+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 柊

柊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. holly osmanthus (Osmanthus heterophyllus)

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しゆう (syuu, historical)}
• Kun: ひいらぎ (hiiragi, 柊)^{←ひひらぎ (fifiragi, 柊, historical)}
• Nanori: くき (kuki)、とう (tō)、ひ (hi)、ひい (hii)^{←ひひ (fifi, historical)}、ひいらぎ (hiiragi)、ひで (hide)、ひら (hira)、ふき (fuki)、らぎ (ragi)

Etymology 1

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

ヒイラギ

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Osmanthus heterophyllus

Wikipedia

柊 (hīragi): a holly osmanthus

Kanji in this term
柊
ひいらぎ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
疼木 鮗

⟨pi₁pi₁ra ki₂⟩ → */pʲipʲiraɡʷi/ → /fifiraɡi/ → /hiwiraɡi/ → /hiːraɡi/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Appears to derive as the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of now-obsolete verb 疼ぐ (hīragu, “to hurt with a stinging pain”), in reference to the sharp thorns on the leaves.^[2]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “extend for "spotnape ponyfish" sense”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ひいらぎ [híꜜìràgì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [çiːɾa̠ɡʲi]

Noun

柊(ひいらぎ) or 柊(ヒイラギ) • (hīragi) ^{←ひひらぎ (fifiragi) or ヒヒラギ (fifiragi)?}

1. 疼木: Osmanthus heterophyllus, a species of flowering plants known as the holly olive, holly osmanthus, or false holly

   Hypernym: 木犀 (mokusei)

2. a style of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with designs of hīragi leaves
3. 鮗: Nuchequula nuchalis, the spotnape ponyfish

Usage notes

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒイラギ.

Derived terms

• 柊(ひいらぎ)鰯(いわし) (hiiragi-iwashi, “sardine and holly charm”)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)樫(ガシ) (hiiragigashi)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)崎(さき) (Hiiragisaki)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)挿(さ)す (hiiragi sasu)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)沢(さわ), 柊(ひいらぎ)澤(さわ) (Hiiragisawa)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)澤(ざわ) (Hiiragizawa)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)草(ソウ) (hiiragisō, “Ajuga incisa”)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)冬青(ソヨゴ) (hiiragi soyogo)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)連朶(デンダ) (hiiragi denda)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)菜(ナ) (hiiragina, “mizuna”)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)南天(ナンテン) (hiiragi nanten, “Mahonia japonica”)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)野(の) (Hiiragino)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)原(はら) (Hiiragihara)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)木犀(モクセイ) (hiiragi mokusei)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)本(もと) (Hiiragimoto)
• 柊(ヒイラギ)黐(モチ) (hiiragimochi)
• 柊(ひいらぎ)山(やま) (Hiiragiyama)
• 支那(シナ)柊(ヒイラギ) (Shina hiiragi)
• 西洋(セイヨウ)柊(ヒイラギ) (seiyō hiiragi)
• 斑(フ)入(イリ)柊(ヒイラギ) (fuiri hiiragi)

Proper noun

柊(ひいらぎ) • (Hīragi) ^{←ひひらぎ (Fifiragi)?}

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
柊
ひらぎ Jinmeiyō
irregular

/hiːraɡi/ → /hiraɡi/

Shift from hīragi above.^[4][2]

Noun

柊(ひらぎ) or 柊(ヒラギ) • (hiragi) 

1. Same as ひいらぎ (hīragi) above

Proper noun

柊(ひらぎ) • (Hiragi) 

1. a surname

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
柊
しゅう Jinmeiyō
kan'on

/t͡ɕɨu/ → /ɕʲuː/ → /ɕuː/

From Middle Chinese 柊 (MC tsyuwng).

Proper noun

柊(しゅう) • (Shū) 

1. a female given name

References

1. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1118 (paper), page 610 (digital)
2. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
4. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

柊 • (jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune–Reischauer chong, Yale cong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柊: Hán Nôm readings: dông

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