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蝗

蝗

Translingual

Han character

蝗 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹日土 (LIHAG), four-corner 56114, composition ⿰虫皇)

References

  • KangXi: page 1089, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2871, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8757

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蝗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皇 *ɡʷaːŋ
惶 *ɡʷaːŋ
遑 *ɡʷaːŋ
堭 *ɡʷaːŋ
煌 *ɡʷaːŋ
餭 *ɡʷaːŋ
騜 *ɡʷaːŋ
艎 *ɡʷaːŋ
隍 *ɡʷaːŋ
湟 *ɡʷaːŋ
徨 *ɡʷaːŋ
篁 *ɡʷaːŋ
蝗 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰 *ɡʷaːŋ
偟 *ɡʷaːŋ
媓 *ɡʷaːŋ
韹 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟 *ɡʷaːŋ
皝 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪 *qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪 *qʷaːŋ
迋 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛 *kʷaŋʔ
誑 *kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡 *kʰʷaŋ
筐 *kʰʷaŋ
框 *kʰʷaŋ
眶 *kʰʷaŋ
誆 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼 *kʰʷaŋ
恇 *kʰʷaŋ
劻 *kʰʷaŋ
洭 *kʰʷaŋ
軭 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂 *ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖 *ɡʷaŋ
鵟 *ɡʷaŋ
俇 *ɡʷaŋʔ
王 *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟 *ɢʷaŋ
彺 *ɢʷaŋ
旺 *ɢʷaŋs
諻 *qʰʷraːŋ
喤 *qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝 *ɡʷraːŋ
锽 *ɡʷraːŋ
揘 *ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝗 蝗 蝗
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 庚 (110) 庚 (110)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) I II II
Fanqie 胡光切 戸盲切 戸孟切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwɑŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷɑŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣuaŋ/ /ɣuaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣuɐŋ/ /ɣuɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huáng hóng hòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤaŋ/
English locust

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 蝗 蝗 蝗
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12708 12753 12755
Phonetic
component		 王 王 王
Rime
group		 陽 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 黃 橫 蝗
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷaːŋ/ /*ɡʷraːŋ/ /*ɡʷraːŋs/

Definitions

蝗

  1. locust
  2. (Hong Kong, derogatory) swarms of Mainlander migrants

Compounds

  • 土蝗
  • 山馬蝗／山马蝗
  • 蝗災／蝗灾
  • 蝗蝻
  • 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (huángchóng)
  • 蝗蟲過境／蝗虫过境
  • 螞蝗／蚂蝗
  • 螞蝗見血／蚂蝗见血
  • 螞蝗釘／蚂蝗钉
  • 飛蝗／飞蝗 (fēihuáng)

Japanese

Kanji

蝗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
蝗
いなご
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Noun

蝗 ‎(hiragana いなご, romaji inago)

  1. イナゴ, 稲子: grasshopper

Korean

Hanja

蝗 • ‎(hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝗 (hoàng)

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