蜷

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See also: 踡
蜷 U+8737, 蜷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8737
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Translingual

Han character

蜷 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火手山 (LIFQU), four-corner 59112, composition ⿰虫卷)

  1. creep like a worm, curl one's body

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33199
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8737

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蜷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
腃 *kʰruls, *ɡron
卷 *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤 *kronʔ
捲 *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢 *kronʔ
睠 *krons
弮 *kʰron, *krons
犈 *krons, *ɡron
棬 *kʰron
鬈 *kʰron, *ɡron
圈 *kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷 *ɡron
踡 *ɡron
婘 *ɡron
蔨 *ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦 *ɡrons
淃 *ɡrons
綣 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷 *kʰonʔ, *qon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡron) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蜷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨員切
Baxter gjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gwian/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjuɛn/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		quán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kyun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蜷
Reading # 1/1
No. 7191
Phonetic
component 		卷
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		權
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡron/
Notes 見離騷

Definitions

蜷

  1. (of the body) to curl; to coil; to huddle; to wriggle

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

海蜷 uminina: horn snails (Batillaria multiformis)
蜷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けん (ken)
  • Kun: にな (nina, 蜷)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蜷
にな
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi1na), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mina.

Pronunciation

Noun

蜷(にな) or 蜷(ニナ) • (nina) 

  1. a melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina), an edible freshwater snail

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蜷 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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