Translingual

Han character

蛸 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火月 (LIFB), four-corner 5912₇, composition ⿰虫肖)

1. long legged spider
2. octopus
3. chrysalis of mantis

References

• KangXi: page 1083, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33072
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2855, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86F8

Cantonese

Hanzi

蛸 ‎(Jyutping saau1, siu1, Yale saau1, siu1)

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Japanese

蛸(tako)

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: たこ (tako)

Compounds

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​こ [táꜜkò] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ko̞]

Alternative forms

• 章魚, 鮹

Noun

蛸 ‎(hiragana たこ, katakana タコ, romaji tako)

1. octopus

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

蛸 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蛸 ‎(Pinyin shāo (shao1), Wade-Giles shao¹)

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