葎

葎 (radical 140, 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹人手 (THOQ), four-corner 4425₇, composition ⿱艹律)

• KangXi: page 1044, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1505, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3252, character 4
• Unihan data for U+844E

葎

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(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: りち (richi)
• Kan-on: りつ (ritsu)
• Kun: むぐら (mugura, 葎); うぐら (ugura, 葎); もぐら (mogura, 葎)
• Nanori: つ (tsu)

花八重葎 (hana yae mugura): the “flowering eight-layer mugura”, field madder.	磯馴葎 (sonare mugura): the “pebble-accustomed mugura”, Hedyotis biflora.
金葎 (kana mugura): the “money mugura”, the Japanese hop plant.	刺無葎 (toge nashi mugura): the “thornless mugura”, false baby's breath.

From Old Japanese.[1] Probably the eastern Japanese form. Compare the alternation in ugura and mugura readings in the etymology of 土竜.

May ultimately derive from obsolete verb 剥る (mukuru, “to peel off, to tear off”), perhaps related to the way that weeds are often removed by tearing the plant out.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) むぐら [mùgúrá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝɡɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

葎 (hiragana むぐら, rōmaji mugura)

1. any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 19, poem 4270), text here:

     牟具良波布 / 伊也之伎屋戸母 / 大皇之 / 座牟等知者 / 玉之可麻思乎

     葎延ふ / 賎しき宿も / 大君の / 座さむと知らば / 玉敷かましを

     むぐら はふ / いやしき やど も / おほきみ の / まさむ と しらば / たま しかまし を

     Mugura hafu / iyashiki yado mo / ohokimi no / masamu to shiraba / tama shikamashi wo

     Even a shabby house surrounded by weed thickets would be as if strewn with jewels if I knew you were there

The plants called by this name are many and varied, and include plants such as madder, cleaver, and hops.

The reading mugura appears to be the most common.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ムグラ.

From Old Japanese. Probably the western Japanese form. Compare the alternation in ugura and mugura readings in the etymology of 土竜.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) うぐら [ùgúrá] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɡɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

葎 (hiragana うぐら, rōmaji ugura)

1. any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds

Probably an alteration or dialectal variant of mugura above. Appears with this reading in the 本草和名 (Honzō Wamyō, “Japanese Names of the Real Herbs”), a pharmacopoeia written in 923.[1] Still listed as an alternate reading in modern dictionaries.[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) もぐら [mògúrá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mo̞ɡɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

葎 (hiragana もぐら, rōmaji mogura)

1. Any of various plants of order Gentianales or Urticales, that form thickets, often have thorns and form vines, and prefer wet or disturbed soils; generally regarded as weeds

• 深根 輔仁 (Fukane Sukehito), editor (901–923) 本草和名 (Honzō Wamyō, Japanese Names of the Real Herbs) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: 紅葉山文庫 (Momiji Yama Bunko, Autumn Leaves Mountain Books), published 1796, OCLC 728064858.