蜎

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蜎 U+870E, 蜎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-870E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蜏 →
蜎 U+2F9B9, 蜎
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9B9
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 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 蛢 →

Translingual

Han character

蜎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口月 (LIRB), four-corner 56127, composition ⿰虫肙)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33115
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+870E

Chinese

trad. 蜎
simp. # 蜎
alternative forms 蜵
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絹 *kʷens
狷 *kʷens, *kʷeːns
蜎 *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲 *qʰʷen, *qʷeːn
娟 *qʷen
悁 *qʷen
捐 *ɢʷen
涓 *kʷeːn
鵑 *kʷeːn
睊 *kʷeːn, *kʷeːns
焆 *kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd
鞙 *kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ
埍 *kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ
罥 *kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns
羂 *kʷleːnʔ
瓹 *kʷeːns
梋 *qʰʷeːn
鋗 *qʰʷeːn
駽 *qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns
琄 *ɡʷeːnʔ
剈 *qʷeːn
肙 *qʷeːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 肙 (OC *qʷeːns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蜎 蜎 蜎
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 先 (86) 仙 (78) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) IV III III
Fanqie 烏玄切 於緣切 狂兖切
Baxter 'wen 'jwien gjwienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔwen/ /ʔiuᴇn/ /ɡiuᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷen/ /ʔʷiɛn/ /ɡʷiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔuɛn/ /ʔjuæn/ /ɡjuænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔwɛn/ /ʔwian/ /gwianX/
Li
Rong 		/ʔuen/ /ʔiuɛn/ /ɡiuɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/iwen/ /ĭwɛn/ /ɡĭwɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔiwen/ /ʔi̯wɛn/ /gi̯wɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuān yuān juàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyun1 jyun1 gyun6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蜎 蜎 蜎
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuān yuān yuān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjwienX › ‹ ʔwen › ‹ gjwienX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷenʔ/ /*qʷˁen/ /*enʔ/
English crawl (as an insect); soft, bending crawl (as an insect); soft, bending crawl (as an insect); soft, bending

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蜎 蜎 蜎
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 16063 16067 16090
Phonetic
component 		肙 肙 肙
Rime
group 		元 元 元
Rime
subdivision 		2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		蜎 娟 淵
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷenʔ/ /*qʷen/ /*qʷeːn/

Definitions

蜎

  1. † mosquito larva

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 孑孓 (“wriggler; wiggler; mosquito larva”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 蜎
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 孑孓
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 跟頭蟲兒
Taiwan 孑孓
Langfang 跟頭蟲兒
Harbin 跟頭蟲兒
Jilu Mandarin Tangshan 跟頭蟲兒
Cangzhou 跟頭蟲
Baoding 跟頭蟲兒
Shijiazhuang 跟頭蟲
Jinan 跟頭蟲, 跟頭蟲子
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 打老鬼, 孑孓
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 跟頭蟲兒, 孑孓
Daming 跟頭蟲兒
Wanrong 顛倒子, 水擔圪斗
Xuzhou 孑孓, 跟頭蟲
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 跟頭蟲
Ürümqi 跟頭蟲
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 跟斗兒蟲, 沙蟲子
Wuhan 跟頭蟲
Guiyang 跟斗蟲
Guilin 孑孓
Liuzhou 跟斗蟲
Nanning (Wuming) 沙蟲, 孑孓
Cantonese Guangzhou 孑孓, 沙蟲, 沙屎蟲, 蚊蟲, 紅蟲
Hong Kong 孑孓, 沙蟲
Kaiping (Chikan) 逕蟲
Nanning 沙蟲
Nanning (Tanka) 沙蟲
Wuzhou 沙蟲
Yulin 曲曲蛆
Hepu (Lianzhou) 沙蟲
Gan Pingxiang 沙蟲
Hakka Meixian 屎蛆仔, 水蛆仔, 蛆仔
Wuhua (Huacheng) 沙蟲
Yudu 沙蟲子
Huizhou Jixi 打滾蟲
Jin Taiyuan 道跌子
Taiyuan (Jiancaoping) 道跌子
Pingyao 卜來來
Xinzhou 吊孑子
Zhangjiakou 耍錢棍兒
Handan 跟頭蟲子
Northern Min Jian'ou 變魚蟲
Eastern Min Fuzhou 把啷鼓墜
Southern Min Xiamen 車蛆, 蛆
Quanzhou 車蛆, 蛆
Jinjiang 車蛆
Zhangzhou 車蛆, 蛆
Tainan 水蛆
Zhangping (Yongfu) 末仔
Shantou 蛆
Jieyang 蛆, 大頭蛆
Leizhou 蛆蟲
Haikou 雨蟲
Puxian Min Putian 蛆, 蛆蟲
Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang) 蛆
Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang) 蛆
Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu) 蛆蟲
Xianyou 蛆
Xianyou (Fengting) 蛆
Xianyou (Youyang) 蛆
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Sanxiang) 蠓蟲
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 沙蟲
Northern Pinghua Guilin (Dahe) 沙蟲
Wu Shanghai 打拳蛆
Shanghai (Chongming) 孓襻蟲
Suzhou 打拳蟲
Danyang 水孑孓, 彎蟲
Hangzhou 倒督蟲兒
Ningbo 棲蟲
Wenzhou 蛆蟲
Jinhua 骨骨蟲, 各各蟲
Jinhua (Tangxi) 糞缸蟲
Xiang Changsha 沙蟲子
Loudi 紅紗蟲

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

蜎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): えん (en)、けん (ken)、げん (gen)
  • Kun: ぼうふら (bōfura)
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