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Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人大口 (LIOKR), four-corner 56100, composition)

  1. spider

References

  • KangXi: page 1085, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33134
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2862, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8718

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'eds
*l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
*l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'
*ʔl'e
*te
*ʔl'es
*te
*teɡs, *deɡ
*de
*l'
*hliʔ
*l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *te) : semantic  (insect; insect-like creature) + phonetic  (OC *ʔl'e). Originally (OC *te), which was originally .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈiə̆/
Li
Rong
/ȶie/
Wang
Li
/ȶǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zh-
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhī
Middle
Chinese
‹ trje ›
Old
Chinese
/*tre/
English *tre.tro spider

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11496
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*te/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Only used in 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū).

Compounds

  • 棚蜘蛛
  • 水蜘蛛
  • 海蜘蛛
  • 蜘蛛抱蛋
  • 蜘蛛綱蜘蛛纲

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ji) (hangeul , revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tri)

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