薻

See also: 𧃡

薻 U+85BB, 薻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85BB ← 薺 [U+85BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 薼 → [U+85BC]

Translingual

Han character

薻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 18 strokes in traditional Chinese, 17 strokes in simplified Chinese, cangjie input 廿水女木 (TEVD), four-corner 4419₄, composition ⿱艹漅)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1063, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32210
• Dae Jaweon: page 1528, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3316, character 7
• Unihan data for U+85BB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		薻
alternative forms		𧃡 𧄩

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
璅	*ʔslaːwʔ
繅	*ʔslaːwʔ, *slaːw
薻	*ʔslaːwʔ
罺	*ʔsraːw, *sʰraːws
摷	*ʔsraːw, *raːw
勦	*sʰraːw, *zraːw, *ʔslawʔ
巢	*zraːw, *zraːws
轈	*zraːw
樔	*zraːw
鄛	*zraːw
剿	*ʔslawʔ
漅	*ʔslawʔ

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔslaːwʔ): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 漅 (OC *ʔslawʔ).

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of 薻 – see 藻 (“algae; other aquatic plants; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 藻).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03591-001