虺

虺 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一山中一戈 (MULMI), four-corner 1521₃, composition ⿺兀虫)

• 𣸀, 𩄁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32833
• Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2834, character 15
• Unihan data for U+867A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ) : phonetic 兀 (OC *ŋuːd) + semantic 虫.

“venomous snake”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྲུལ (sbrul), Japhug qapri, Chepang रु (ru), Burmese မြွေ (mrwe), S'gaw Karen ဂုၢ် (ghu̱).

虺

1. (Chinese mythology) a kind of venomous snake

   • 吉夢維何、
     維熊維羆、
     維虺維蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     吉梦维何、
     维熊维罴、
     维虺维蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jí mèng wéi hé,
     Wéi xióng wéi pí,
     Wéi huǐ wéi shé.

     What dreams are lucky?
     They have been about black bears and brown bears,
     They have been about asps and adders.

   • 1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society:

     但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬傷馬蹄、使騎馬的墜落於後。 [MSC, trad.]
     但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬伤马蹄、使骑马的坠落于后。 [MSC, simp.]

     Dàn bì zuò dào shang de shé, lù zhōng de huǐ, yǎoshāng mǎtí, shǐ qímǎ de zhuìluò yú hòu.

     Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

2. (Waxiang) snake

虺

1. Used in 虺隤／虺𬯎 (“sick; ambitionless”).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04215
• “虺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. large poisonous snake

• Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}
• Kan-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)}
• Kun: まむし (mamushi, 虺)

• (ancient form) 虫

虺 • (hwe) (hangeul 훼, revised hwe, McCune–Reischauer hwe, Yale hwey)

1. viper
2. big snake

虺: Hán Nôm readings: hủy/huỷ

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