茸

茸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿尸十 (TSJ), four-corner 4440₁, composition ⿱艹耳)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1029, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30918
• Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3200, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8338

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njoŋ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + abbreviated phonetic 聰 (OC *sʰloːŋ) (Shuowen).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “←→絨?”)

茸

1. (of vegetation) soft and downy; newly sprouted and pilose
2. bud; sprout
3. fine hair; soft fur
4. pilose antler of a young stag

茸

1. (obsolete) to push in
2. Used in compounds.

• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) →ISBN.
• (Min Nan) “Query for 茸”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “茸”, 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–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: にょう (nyō)
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru, 茸る); きのこ (kinoko, 茸); たけ (take, 茸)

Originally a compound of 木(き) (ki, “tree”) + の (no, attributive or possessive particle) + 子(こ) (ko, “child”).[1][2][3][4]

• (Tokyo) き​のこ [kíꜜnòkò] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5][6]
• IPA^(key): [kʲino̞ko̞]

茸(きのこ) or 茸(キノコ) • (kinoko) 

1. a mushroom

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

• 茸(きのこ)雲(ぐも) (kinokogumo)
• キノピオ (kinopio, “Toad”)

• (Tokyo) たけ [tàké] (Heiban – [0])[4]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ke̞]

茸(たけ) or 茸(タケ) • (take) 

1. (chiefly Kansai or in compounds) a mushroom
2. (colloquial) the flesh of an animal

• エリンギ (eringi, “eryngii mushroom”)
• トリュフ (toryufu, “truffle”)
• マッシュルーム (masshurūmu, “mushroom”)

Extension of 草片 (kusabira, “edible plant or green”), a compound of 草 (kusa, “grass”) +‎ 片 (hira, “something flat”). According to one theory, the historical reading of this word was kusahira, without rendaku, but it's now exclusively pronounced as kusabira.

茸(くさびら) or 茸(くさひら) • (kusabira or kusahira) 

1. (archaic, now dialectal) a mushroom
2. (etymology, obsolete) vegetable, greens
3. (euphemistic, in Ise Grand Shrine) the flesh of an animal

• 斎(さい)宮(ぐう)の忌(い)み詞(ことば) (Saigū no imikotoba)

茸(くさびら) • (Kusabira) 

1. a kyogen play

From NTT Docomo's mascot character having mushroom motif.

• IPA^(key): [kʲino̞ko̞]

茸(きのこ) • (Kinoko) 

1. (Internet slang) NTT Docomo

• 庭(にわ) (niwa)
• 禿(はげ) (hage)
• 芋(いも) (imo)

茸 • (yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune–Reischauer yong, Yale yong)

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茸: Hán Nôm readings: nhung

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