蜀

蜀 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田中心中戈 (WLPLI), four-corner 6012₇, composition ⿱罒𠣜 or ⿹𦉶虫)

• 㒔, 噣, 擉, 濁(浊), 獨(独), 斶, 㯮, 燭(烛), 㻿, 臅, 襡, 蠋, 觸(触), 躅, 鐲(镯), 䪅, 韣(𱂋), 𩑂, 䮷, 髑, 蠲, 𩼟
• 䟉, 劅, 斀, 斣, 歜, 䫳, 鸀(𱊬), 薥, 屬(属)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1084, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33086
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2921, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8700

Historical forms of the character 蜀
Shang	Western Zhou		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Shuowen Jiezi interprets this as a pictograph of a silkworm: with 目 (mù, “eye”) depicting its head above its wriggling body; cf. 蠶叢／蚕丛 (“silkworm-thicket”), legendary inventor of silk and sericulture and ancestor of the first dynasty of the Shu kings.

蜀

1. (～國) the name of a state in ancient China

   • 十有一月，公會楚公子嬰齊于蜀。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     十有一月，公会楚公子婴齐于蜀。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Shíyǒuyī yuè, gōng huì chǔ gōngzǐ yīngqí yú shǔ.

     In the eleventh month, the Duke met the princeling Yingqi of Chu in Shu.

2. another name for Shu Han, one of Three Kingdoms

   • 安西將軍鄧艾大破蜀大將姜維於上邽。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     安西将军邓艾大破蜀大将姜维于上邽。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Chen Shou, Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 3^rd century CE

     Ānxī jiāngjūn dèng ài dà pò shǔ dà jiāng jiāng wéi yú shàngguī.

     (Wei) General-who-Calms-the-West Deng Ai soundly defeated Shu Grand General Jiang Wei at Shanggui

3. Sichuan (a province of China)
4. ^‡ silkworm on hollyhock
5. ^† Alternative form of 蠋 (zhú, “caterpillar”)

Compare 獨／独 (dú, “single, alone”). According to Fangyan, it is used in the ancient Chu language (楚語):

一，蜀也。南楚謂之蜀。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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一，蜀也。南楚谓之蜀。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: Yang Xiong, Fangyan, c. 1^st century BCE

Yī, shǔ yě. Nánchǔ wèi zhī shǔ.

一 is 蜀. People from Southern Chu call it 蜀.

蜀

1. (Min) Alternative form of 一 (“one”)

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “蜀”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 508.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “蜀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 213.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. green caterpillar
2. Sichuan

• Go-on: ぞく (zoku)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: いもむし (imomushi, 蜀)

From Middle Chinese 蜀 (MC dzyowk).

• IPA^(key):

蜀(しょく) • (Shoku) ^{←しよく (Syoku)?}

1. Shu (a former state and former dynasty in ancient China)

蜀 (eumhun 나라 이름 촉 (nara ireum chok))

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蜀: Hán Nôm readings: xọc, thục

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