菌

菌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿田竹木 (TWHD), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹囷)

• 𣛃, 𭿰, 𢋵

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1037, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31156
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3234, character 9
• Unihan data for U+83CC
• Unihan data for U+2F9A2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡonʔ, *ɡrunʔ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 囷 (OC *kʰrun, *ɡrun).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-r(i/u)n (“mushroom; fungus”) (STEDT).

菌

1. bacterium; germ

   抑菌  ―  yìjūn  ―  to inhibit bacteria

   有好多菌 [Cantonese]  ―  jau⁵ hou² do¹ kwan² [Jyutping]  ―  have lots of bacteria; be germy

2. fungus

• (bacterium): 細菌／细菌 (xìjūn)
• (fungus): 真菌 (zhēnjūn)

菌

1. mushroom; toadstool

   • 朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Cháojūn bùzhī huìshuò, huìgū bùzhī chūnqiū, cǐ xiǎonián yě. [Pinyin]

     The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn.

2. Alternative form of 箘 (“bamboo shoots”)
3. a surname: Jun

• (mushroom): 蕈 (xùn), 蘑菇 (mógu)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. fungus, mold
2. bacterium, germ

• Go-on: ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)^{←きん (kin, historical)←くゐん (kwin, ancient)}
• Kun: きのこ (kinoko, 菌)

• 細菌(さいきん) (saikin): bacterium, germ
• 納豆菌(なっとうきん) (nattō kin): Bacillus subtilis var. natto

菌 (eumhun 버섯 균 (beoseot gyun))

1. Hanja form^? of 균 (“mushroom”).
2. Hanja form^? of 균 (“germ, microbe”).

菌: Hán Nôm readings: khuẩn

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