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櫱
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵
蘖
🇨🇳

sprout

HSK 10
Nature →Plants
niè
ゲツ、ゲチ、ガツ、ガチ
ひこばえ
Components
Traditional (櫱)
辥 variety of marsh grass+ 木 tree =
櫱 sprout
辥 Phonetic component
xuē variety of marsh grass
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木 Meaning component
mù tree
tree
Simplified (蘖)
薛 Xue+ 木 tree =
蘖 stump
薛 Phonetic component
xuē Xue
kind of marsh grass
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木 Meaning component
mù tree
tree
Notes
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Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
櫱
Regular
Modern
Chinese
蘖 / 櫱 [niè]
new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (2)
分蘖 [fēn​niè] #32,750
tiller (stem at the base of grass plants)
蘖枝 [niè​zhī] #73,889
branch stem
JAPANESE WORDS (1)
分けつ [ぶんけつ] #237,239
tiller