薚

薚 U+859A, 薚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-859A ← 薙 [U+8599] CJK Unified Ideographs 薛 → [U+859B]

Translingual

Han character

薚 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿一弓竹 (TMNH), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹⿰歹昜)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32122
• Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3300, character 16
• Unihan data for U+859A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		薚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāng (tang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄤ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tang
    • Wade–Giles: tʻang¹
    • Yale: tāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tang
    • Palladius: тан (tan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: thang

Rime
Character	薚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	吐郎切
Baxter	thang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/tʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/tʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	薚
Reading #	1/1
No.	14555
Phonetic component	昜
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	湯
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːŋ/

Definitions

薚

1. Only used in 蓫薚.