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Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火火月中戈 (FFBLI), four-corner 99136)

References

  • KangXi: page 1093, character 45
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2881, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+87A2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qreːŋ
*qreːŋ
*qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
*qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
*pqʰʷeːŋ
*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
*qʷraːŋʔ
*ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreːŋ
*ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
*ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
*ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
*kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
*ɡʷeŋ
*ɡʷeŋ
*qʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*qʷeːŋʔ
*qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ³⁵/
Harbin /iŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /iŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /iŋ²⁴/
Xining /iə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /in²¹³/
Chengdu /yn³¹/
Guiyang /in²¹/
Kunming /ĩ³¹/
Nanjing /in²⁴/
Hefei /in⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /yŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioŋ²³/
/ɦiŋ²³/
Suzhou /ɦin¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦin²¹³/
Wenzhou /joŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /iɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /yn¹³/
/ian¹³/
Xiangtan /yn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /yn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /in¹¹/
Taoyuan /ub¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ²¹/
Nanning /jeŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /jiŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ioŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zɔŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong
/ɣueŋ/
Wang
Li
/ɣiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xióng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yíng
Middle
Chinese
‹ hweng ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qʷˤeŋ/
English glow-worm

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. 15387
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷeːŋ/

Definitions

  1. firefly

Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
ほたる
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

(hiragana ほたる, katakana ホタル, romaji hotaru)

  1. Alternative spelling of

Korean

Hanja

(hyeong) (hangeul , revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(huỳnh)

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