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蝸

蝸

See also: 蜗

Translingual

Han character

蝸 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月月口 (LIBBR), four-corner 57127, composition ⿰虫咼)

  1. terrestrial snail (as opposed to an aquatic snail, 螺)

References

  • KangXi: page 1091, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33338
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2862, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8778

Chinese

trad. 蝸
simp. 蜗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
碢 *l'oːl
腡 *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過 *kloːl, *kloːls
渦 *kloːl, *qloːl
鍋 *kloːl
楇 *kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑 *kloːl
緺 *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝 *kloːl
濄 *kloːl, *qloːl
鐹 *kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖 *kʰloːl
簻 *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍 *ɡloːlʔ
窩 *qloːl
萵 *qloːl
檛 *kr'oːl
膼 *kr'oːl
蝸 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎 *kroːlʔ
剮 *kroːlʔ
諣 *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄 *kʷroːl
咼 *kʰʷroːl
喎 *kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 虫 ‎(“worm”) + phonetic 咼 ‎(OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝸 蝸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (32) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 古娃切 古華切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠuɛ/ /kˠua/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚæ/ /kʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuæi/ /kua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨj/ /kwaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /kuɛ/ /kua/
Wang
Li		 /kwai/ /kwa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwai/ /kwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guā guā
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.rˤoj/ (dialect: *k.rˤ- > *kˤr-)
English snail

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 蝸 蝸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4384 4394
Phonetic
component		 冎 冎
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 瓜
Old
Chinese		 /*kroːl/ /*kʷroːl/

Definitions

蝸

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蝸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蝸 • ‎(wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

蝸 (oa)

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