薺

薺 (radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜X (TYX), four-corner 4422₃, composition ⿱艹齊)

• KangXi: page 1063, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1527, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3315, character 11
• Unihan data for U+85BA

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zliːlʔ, *zlil) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 齊 (OC *zliːl, *zliːls).

薺

1. shepherd's purse

薺

1. Only used in 荸薺／荸荠 (bíqí) and its regional synonyms.

薺

1. Alternative form of 茨 (cí, “Tribulus terrestris”).

薺 (nazuna): the flower of the shepherd's purse.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 萕)

• Go-on: ざい (zai); じ (ji)
• Kan-on: せい (sei); し (shi)
• Kun: なずな (nazuna, 薺)^{←なづな (naduna, historical)}; ひとしい (hitoshii, 薺しい); ととのえる (totonoeru, 薺える)

/nad͡zuna/ > /nazuna/

Unclear. There are two leading theories, based on older form nadzuna:

• May be derived from natsu na, as in 夏 (natsu, “summer”) + 無 (na, “missing, gone”), from the way the plant dies back in the summer.
• May be derived from nadzuru na, as in 撫づる (nadzuru, “to pet, to pat, to stroke”, the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of Old Japanese verb 撫づ nadzu, modern Japanese 撫でる naderu) + 菜 (na, “edible greens”), from the way the flower clusters may invite handling.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) なずな [nàzúná] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [na̠zɨᵝna̠]

薺 (hiragana なずな, katakana ナズナ, rōmaji nazuna, historical hiragana なづな)

1. shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris

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

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

薺 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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