莪

莪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹手戈 (THQI), four-corner 4455₃, composition ⿱艹我)

• 𠌾, 𪦙

• 䕏 (Variant form)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1035, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31077
• Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3219, character 15
• Unihan data for U+83AA

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːl) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).

莪

1. (botany) Incarvillea sinensis

   Synonyms: 角蒿, 莪蒿, 萝蒿

2. ^† (botany) Alternative form of 菌 (jùn, “mushroom”)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03884
• “莪”, 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–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (botany) name of two different plants in the family Asteraceae

• On (unclassified): が (ga)
• Kun: きつねあざみ (kitsuneazami); つのよもぎ (tsunoyomogi)

From Middle Chinese 莪 (MC nga, “Incarvillea sinensis”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

• 菻, 狐薊

• IPA^(key): [kʲit͡sɨᵝne̞a̠za̠mʲi]

莪(きつねあざみ) • (kitsuneazami) 

1. (botany) type of thistle (Hemisteptia lyrata)

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝno̞jo̞mo̞ɡʲi]

莪(つのよもぎ) • (tsunoyomogi) 

1. (botany) name of plant in the Artemisia genus

莪 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

莪 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of ngà.

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

莪: Hán Nôm readings: ngò, nga

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Nom Foundation