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蛤

蛤

Translingual

Han character

蛤 (radical 142 虫+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人一口 (LIOMR), four-corner 58161)

  1. clam

References

  • KangXi: page 1082, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33023
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1550, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2850, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+86E4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蛤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蛤
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 蛤 (蛤蟆)
Mandarin Beijing /xa³⁵/
Harbin /xa²⁴/
Tianjin /xɑ⁴⁵/
Jinan /xa⁴²/
Qingdao /xa⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /xɯ²⁴/
Xining /ɕia⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xa⁵³/
Lanzhou /xə⁵³/
Ürümqi /xɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕia⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xa⁵⁵/
/ɕia⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xa⁵⁵/
Kunming /xə³¹/
Nanjing /ɕiɑ²⁴/
Hefei /xa⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao
Hohhot /xaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ho³⁴/
Suzhou /ho⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɑ³³/
Wenzhou /ɦo³¹/
Hui Shexian /kʰa⁴⁴/
Tunxi /kau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha
Xiangtan /ɦɒ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /hɑ²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /ha¹¹/
Taoyuan /hɑ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ha⁵⁵/
Nanning /ha²¹/
Hong Kong /ha⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ha³⁵/
/he³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ha⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xa³³/
Shantou (Min Nan)
Haikou (Min Nan) /ha³¹/
Rime
Character 蛤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kəp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəp̚/
Li
Rong		 /kᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ge
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蛤
Reading # 1/1
No. 4953
Phonetic
component		 合
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 閤
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːb/

Definitions

蛤

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Compounds

  • 文蛤
  • 泂蛤仔
  • 翁蛤
  • 花蛤
  • 蛤柱
  • 蛤灰
  • 蛤蟆吵坑
  • 蛤蟆蹲
  • 蛤蠣／蛤蛎
  • 蜃蛤
  • 雕蚶鏤蛤／雕蚶镂蛤

Japanese

Kanji

蛤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

蛤 ‎(hiragana はまぐり, romaji hamaguri)

  1. clam

Korean

Hanja

蛤 • ‎(hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune-Reischauer hap, Yale hap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蛤 (cáp)

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