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蠆

蠆

See also: 躉 and 虿

Translingual

Han character

蠆 (radical 142 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿田月戈 (TWBI), four-corner 44136, composition ⿱萬虫)

  1. a kind of scorpion
  2. a sting in the tail

References

  • KangXi: page 1099, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33694
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2889, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+8806

Chinese

trad. 蠆
simp. 虿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠆
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糲 *m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡 *m·raːds, *m·rads
噧 *hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁 *mraːds
勱 *mraːds
蠆 *m̥ʰraːds
厲 *m·rads
勵 *m·rads
礪 *m·rads
蠣 *m·rads
蠇 *m·rads
癘 *m·rads
濿 *m·rads
櫔 *m·rads
巁 *m·rads
贎 *m·rads, *mlans
萬 *mlans

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蠆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 徹 (10)
Final (韻) 夬 (29)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 丑犗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈʰˠaiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈʰᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶʰaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈʰaɨjsH/
Li
Rong		 /ȶʰaiH/
Wang
Li		 /ȶʰæiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶʰaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trhæjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə-r̥ˤa[t]-s/
English scorpion

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 蠆
Reading # 1/1
No. 12620
Phonetic
component		 萬
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 蠆
Old
Chinese		 /*m̥ʰraːds/

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

蠆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. scorpion

Readings

Vietnamese

Han character

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