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虻

虻

Translingual

Han character

虻 (radical 142 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜女 (LIYV), four-corner 50110)

  1. horsefly, gadfly

References

  • KangXi: page 1077, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32835
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2835, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+867B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 虻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 虻
Reading # 1/1
No. 12691
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 盲
Old
Chinese		 /*mraːŋ/
Notes 同蝱見莊子

Definitions

虻

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Compounds

  • 牛虻
  • 花虻
  • 蚊虻之勞／蚊虻之劳
  • 食蟲虻／食虫虻

References

Japanese

Kanji

虻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

虻 ‎(hiragana あぶ, katakana アブ, romaji abu)

  1. horsefly

Idioms

Korean

Hanja

虻 • ‎(meong) (hangeul 멍, revised meong, McCune-Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)

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