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蟹

蟹

See also: 蠏 and 聲

Translingual

Han character

蟹 (radical 142 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓手中一戈 (NQLMI), four-corner 27136, composition ⿱解虫)

References

  • KangXi: page 1098, character 49
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33668
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2898, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+87F9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蟹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (解) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
薢 *kreː, *kreːʔ, *kreːs
解 *kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs
檞 *kreːʔ
懈 *kreːs
繲 *kreːs
廨 *kreːs
蟹 *ɡreːʔ
獬 *ɡreːʔ
澥 *ɡreːʔ
嶰 *ɡreːʔ
邂 *ɡreːs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蟹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 佳 (31)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡買切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣæiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨjX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣaiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣaiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xià
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蟹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-kˤreʔ/
English crab

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 蟹
Reading # 1/1
No. 6482
Phonetic
component		 解
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蟹
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːʔ/
Notes 說文蟲在左

Noun

蟹

  1. crab

Synonyms

  • (Mandarin) 螃蟹 (pángxiè)

Japanese

Kanji

蟹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology

蟹 (kani): a crab.
Kanji in this term
蟹
かに
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Possibly a compound of 殻 ‎(kara, “shell”) +‎ 丹 ‎(ni, “red”). Possibly cognate with Korean 게 ‎(ge, “crab”); compare the Jeju dialect word 깅이 ‎(ging-i, “crab”).

Pronunciation

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana かに, katakana カニ, romaji kani)

  1. a crab (infraorder Brachyura)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as カニ.

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

Kikai

Kanji

蟹 ‎(hiragana がにー, romaji ganī)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蟹 ‎(kani, “crab”).

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana がにー, romaji ganī)

  1. crab

Korean

Hanja

蟹 • ‎(hae) (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae, Yale hay)

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Miyako

Kanji

蟹 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蟹 ‎(kani, “crab”).

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan)

  1. crab

Oki-No-Erabu

Kanji

蟹 ‎(hiragana がに, romaji gani)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蟹 ‎(kani, “crab”).

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana がに, romaji gani)

  1. crab

Okinawan

Kanji

蟹 ‎(hiragana がに, romaji gani)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蟹 ‎(kani, “crab”).

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana がに, romaji gani)

  1. crab

Vietnamese

Han character

蟹 (giải)

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Yoron

Kanji

蟹 ‎(hiragana がん, romaji gan)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蟹 ‎(kani, “crab”).

Noun

蟹 ‎(hiragana がん, romaji gan)

  1. crab

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