Translingual

Han character

蝟 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈田月 (LIWB), four-corner 5612₇)

1. hedgehog

References

• KangXi: page 1090, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33287
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2870, character 6
• Unihan data for U+875F

Cantonese

Hanzi

蝟 ‎(simplified 猬, Jyutping wai6, Yale wai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: い (i)
• Kan’on: い (i)
• Kun: はりねずみ (harinezumi)

Etymology

針 ‎(hari, “needle”) +‎ 鼠 ‎(nezumi, “mouse, rat or the like”)

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) はりね​ずみ [hàrínéꜜzùmì] (Nakadaka - [3])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾĩne̞zɯᵝmi]

Noun

蝟 ‎(hiragana はりねずみ, katakana ハリネズミ, romaji harinezumi)

1. Alternative spelling of 針鼠: hedgehog

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

蝟 • ‎(wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune-Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蝟 ‎(simplified 猬, Pinyin wèi (wei4), Wade-Giles wei⁴)

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