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蚊 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜大 (LIYK), four-corner 50140, composition ⿰虫文)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯn) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn).
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蚊 | |
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From Proto-Mon-Khmer *muujs with a nominal suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Khmer មូស (muuh), Vietnamese muỗi.
蚊
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蚊 | |
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| alternative forms | 文 緡／缗 | |
From 文 (man4, “classifier for copper coins”).
蚊
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蚊 | |
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Cognate to Taishanese (and other Siyi dialects) 民 (min2), as in 細民仔／细民仔.
Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may come from the same etymon that gives 便 (OC *ben) as in 便嬖 (OC *ben peːɡs), which he relates to Proto-Kam-Sui *mpaːn¹ (“male (person)”) and Proto-Hlai *C-maːn (“male (person)”).
蚊
| Kanji in this term |
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| 蚊 |
| か Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. Possibly related to 噛む (kamu, “to bite”) or 痒い (kayui, “itchy”), although the ultimate derivation remains unknown.
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| 蚊 |
| かあ Grade: S |
| irregular |
Cognate with 蚊 (ka). Likely pronounced long due to being a single mora. Elongation of single mora words is still seen in the Ōsaka dialect with words like teː "hand" from te. The 794 quotation is the oldest extant example of a long vowel in Japanese.
蚊 (eum 문 (mun))
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