葱

See also: 蔥 and 茐

葱 U+8471, 葱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8471 ← 葰 [U+8470] CJK Unified Ideographs 葲 → [U+8472]

Translingual

Han character

葱 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿心大心 (TPKP), composition ⿱艹怱)

Derived characters

• 憽, 檧, 濍, 燪, 繱, 𢶰, 𣎨, 𤩿, 𫓑

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1046, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31454
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3253, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8471

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (囱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
牎	*sʰroːŋ
窗	*sʰroːŋ
窓	*sʰroːŋ
囱	*sʰroːŋ, *sʰloːŋ
總	*ʔsloːŋʔ
熜	*ʔsloːŋʔ
傯	*ʔsloːŋʔ
緫	*ʔsloːŋʔ
揔	*ʔsloːŋʔ
偬	*ʔsloːŋʔ, *ʔsloːŋs
囪	*sʰloːŋ
璁	*sʰloːŋ
驄	*sʰloːŋ
蔥	*sʰloːŋ
匆	*sʰloːŋ
怱	*sʰloːŋ
葱	*sʰloːŋ
楤	*sʰloːŋ
聦	*sʰloːŋ
繱	*sʰloːŋ
騘	*sʰloːŋ
鍯	*sʰloːŋ
聰	*sʰloːŋ
愡	*sʰloːŋs
檧	*sloːŋ, *sloːŋʔ
憽	*sloːŋ
幒	*sʰloŋʔ, *kjoŋ

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

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 葱 – see 蔥 (“green onion; spring onion; scallion; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 蔥).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

Region	蔥	葱
Taiwan	standard	variant
Hong Kong	variant	standard

Japanese

Kanji

葱

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. leek
2. scallion, green onion

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: ねぎ (negi, 葱)

Compounds

• 葱嶺(そうれい) (sōrei)
• 浅葱(あさぎ) (asagi)
• 浅葱(アサツキ) (asatsuki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
葱
ねぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Compound of 根 (ne, “root”) +‎ 葱 (ki, “onion”, older form).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ねぎ [néꜜgì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ne̞ɡʲi]

Noun

葱(ねぎ) or 葱(ネギ) • (negi)  (counter 本)

1. scallion, spring onion, Allium fistulosum

   Synonym: 白根 (shirone)

Derived terms

• 鴨葱(かもねぎ) (kamonegi)
• 白葱(しろねぎ) (shironegi)
• 玉葱(たまねぎ) (tamanegi)
• 長葱(ながねぎ) (naganegi)
• 芽葱(めねぎ) (menegi)

Idioms

• 鴨(かも)が葱(ねぎ)を背負(しょ)って来(く)る (kamo ga negi o shottekuru)

Descendants

• → Atayal: negi'

Korean

Hanja

葱 • (chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune–Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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