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Translingual
Han character
蜉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月弓木 (LIBND), four-corner 52147, composition ⿰虫孚)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1084, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33104
- Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2857, character 3
- Unihan data for U+8709
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 殍
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*brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw
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| 脬
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*pʰruː
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| 捊
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*bruː, *buw
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| 莩
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*browʔ, *pʰuw
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| 哹
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*pu, *bu
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| 浮
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*bu
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| 蜉
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*bu
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| 桴
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*bu, *pʰuw
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| 罦
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*bu, *pʰuw
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| 琈
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*bu
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| 粰
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*bu
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| 烰
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*bu
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| 艀
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*bu
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| 俘
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*pʰuw
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| 孚
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*pʰuw
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| 孵
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*pʰuw
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| 稃
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*pʰuw
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| 郛
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*pʰuw
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| 筟
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*pʰuw
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Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bəw (“insect, bug, vermin, snake”); cognate with Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect”), Tibetan འབུ ('bu, “iworm, bug”), Apatani ta-bu (“snake”), bu-rũ & bu-di (“python”), Southern Qiang bù ló (bug, maggot), etc. (STEDT). Schuessler (2007) also proposes cognacy with Tibetan སྦུར (sbur, “ant”), yet STEDT doesn't.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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蜉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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fú
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ bjuw ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(r)u/
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| English
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mayfly
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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蜉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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3347
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Phonetic
component
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孚
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Rime
group
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幽
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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浮
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Old
Chinese
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/*bu/
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Definitions
蜉
- Only used in 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) and 蚍蜉 (pífú).
- ‡ big ant
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
蜉
(Hyōgai kanji)
- mayfly
- large ant
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
蜉 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)
- mayfly
- kind of large insect
Vietnamese
Han character
蜉: Hán Việt readings: phù
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Compounds