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Translingual
Han character
䗽 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女土中一戈 (VGLMI), composition ⿱維虫)
- a small gadfly that suck blood of horse or cow, weevil found in rice
- etc.
References
Chinese
Etymology
Austroasiatic (Norman & Mei, 1976; Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *roaj (“"fly (insect)"”) and its descendants.
Foreign (pre-)initial *r- was lost before Old Chinese *w-.
Pronunciation
Definitions
䗽
- (obsolete) small gadfly
夫邊境者，國之尾也，譬之如牛馬，處暑之既至，䖟䗽之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦懼之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
夫边境者，国之尾也，譬之如牛马，处暑之既至，䖟𰳚之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦惧之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Guoyu, circa 4th century BCE
- Fú biānjìng zhě, guó zhī wěi yě, pì zhī rú niúmǎ, chùshǔ zhī jì zhì, mǎngwèi zhī jì duō, ér bùnéng diào qí wěi, chén yì jù zhī.
- The borders and frontiers are like states' tails. Let's compare them to oxen and horses: when the End of Heat term will have come, the large and small gadflies will have swarmed, and will not be able to wag their tails. I your subject fear that.
- rice weevil