蝗

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蝗 U+8757, 蝗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8757
← 蝖
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蝘 →

Translingual

Han character

蝗 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹日土 (LIHAG), four-corner 56114, composition ⿰虫皇)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1089, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2871, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8757

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蝗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皇 *ɡʷaːŋ
惶 *ɡʷaːŋ
遑 *ɡʷaːŋ
堭 *ɡʷaːŋ
煌 *ɡʷaːŋ
餭 *ɡʷaːŋ
騜 *ɡʷaːŋ
艎 *ɡʷaːŋ
隍 *ɡʷaːŋ
湟 *ɡʷaːŋ
徨 *ɡʷaːŋ
篁 *ɡʷaːŋ
蝗 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰 *ɡʷaːŋ
偟 *ɡʷaːŋ
媓 *ɡʷaːŋ
韹 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟 *ɡʷaːŋ
皝 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪 *qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪 *qʷaːŋ
迋 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛 *kʷaŋʔ
誑 *kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡 *kʰʷaŋ
筐 *kʰʷaŋ
框 *kʰʷaŋ
眶 *kʰʷaŋ
誆 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼 *kʰʷaŋ
恇 *kʰʷaŋ
劻 *kʰʷaŋ
洭 *kʰʷaŋ
軭 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂 *ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖 *ɡʷaŋ
鵟 *ɡʷaŋ
俇 *ɡʷaŋʔ
王 *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟 *ɢʷaŋ
彺 *ɢʷaŋ
旺 *ɢʷaŋs
諻 *qʰʷraːŋ
喤 *qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝 *ɡʷraːŋ
鍠 *ɡʷraːŋ
揘 *ɡʷaŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 皇 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝗 蝗 蝗
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 庚 (110) 庚 (110)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) I II II
Fanqie 胡光切 戸盲切 戸孟切
Baxter hwang hwaeng hwaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦwɑŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋ/ /ɦˠwæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷɑŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋ/ /ɦʷᵚaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣuaŋ/ /ɣuaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwaŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋ/ /ɦwaɨjŋH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣuɐŋ/ /ɣuɐŋH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣuɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣwɑŋ/ /ɣwɐŋ/ /ɣwɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huáng hóng hòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wong4 wang4 wang6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huáng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷˁaŋ/
English locust

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 蝗 蝗 蝗
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12708 12753 12755
Phonetic
component 		王 王 王
Rime
group 		陽 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision 		0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		黃 橫 蝗
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷaːŋ/ /*ɡʷraːŋ/ /*ɡʷraːŋs/

Definitions

蝗

  1. locust
  2. (Hong Kong, derogatory) swarms of Mainlander migrants

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蝗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
蝗
いなご
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

蝗(いなご) or 蝗(イナゴ) • (inago) 

  1. Alternative spelling of 稲子 (“locust”) (type of grasshopper)
    蝗(いなご)の神(かみ)
    Inago no Kami
    The Locust God

Korean

Hanja

蝗 • (hwang) (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune–Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝗: Hán Nôm readings: hoàng

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