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蠣

蠣

See also: 蛎

Translingual

Han character

蠣 (radical 142 虫+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 中戈一廿月 (LIMTB), four-corner 51127, composition ⿰虫厲)

References

  • KangXi: page 1102, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33799
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1565, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2900, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8823

Chinese

trad. 蠣
simp. 蛎

Glyph origin

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 蠣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力制切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liajH/
Li
Rong		 /liɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /lĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə-rat-s/
English stinging insect

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 蠣
Reading # 1/1
No. 12624
Phonetic
component		 萬
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 例
Old
Chinese		 /*m·rads/
Notes 說文蠇之後起分化字

Definitions

蠣

  1. oyster

Japanese

Kanji

蠣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蠣 • ‎(ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠣 (lệ, lị)

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