樺
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Translingual
| Japanese | 樺 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 桦 |
| Traditional | 樺 |
Han character
樺 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一十 (DTMJ), four-corner 44954, composition ⿰木華)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 552, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15497
- Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1261, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6A3A
Chinese
| trad. | 樺 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 桦 | |
| alternative forms | 華／华 | |
Glyph origin
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwa (“birch”) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan གྲོ་ག (gro ga, “bark of birch tree”).
Pronunciation
Japanese
Readings
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 樺 |
| かば Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 椛 |
A shift from kaniwa below.[1]
First appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.[1]
Usage notes
- As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カバ.
Derived terms
Usage notes
- As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カンバ.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 白樺 (shirakanba, “Betula platyphylla”)
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 樺 |
| かにわ Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 桜皮 |
⟨kanipa⟩ → /kaniɸa/ → /kaniwa/
From Old Japanese 樺 (kanipa, “sakura, sakura bark”), from Ainu カリンパ (karinpa, “sakura, sakura bark”).[4][5][6]
Found in the Man'yōshū (book 6), completed some time after 759 CE, in sense 1.[2][7] Sense 2 appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.[8]
Compare Sakhalin Ainu カリムバニ (karimba-ni, “cherry tree; Prunus pseudocerasus”) and カリムバタツ (karimba-tat, “Betula Maximowicziana”).[9]
Noun
- (obsolete) Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana) or its bark
- (obsolete) monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana) or its bark
References
- “樺”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- Frellesvig, Bjarke, Stephen Wright Horn, et al. (eds.) (2023) “Old Japanese kanipa”, in Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese
- Vovin (2020)
- “かには”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- “樺・桜皮”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language), Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 212
Korean
Compounds
- 백화 (白樺, baekhwa, “Asian white birch”)
Vietnamese
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