Hanja Analyzer
蕊

蕊 — ye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
꽃술 예
Romanization
ye
English
unopened flowers, flower buds
Mandarin
ruǐ
Japanese on'yomi
ズイ, セン, セツ, ニ, セチ
Japanese kun'yomi
しべ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
15
Variant forms
蕋 蘂
Radical
艸 (140, 12 residual)
Unicode
U+854A

How 蕊 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蕊 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 惢.

Japanese words with 蕊

  • 蕊しべ pistil; stamen
  • 花蕊かずい center of a flower (centre); pistils and stamens
  • 二強雄蕊にきょうゆうずい didynamous stamen
  • 四強雄蕊しきょうゆうずい tetradynamous stamen

Other hanja read “예”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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