螆

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In traditional Chinese (Taiwan and Hong Kong), the right component is written 茲 (contains 艹), which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In simplified Chinese (mainland China), the right component is written 兹 (contains 䒑), which is also a historical variant found in classical Chinese dictionaries.
• In Japanese kanji, the right component is written 玆 (duplication of 玄).
• Due to Han unification, the three forms above are encoded under the same code point. This character will appear differently depending on the font used.

Han character

螆 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10 in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 虫+9 in simplified Chinese, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 15 strokes in simplified Chinese, cangjie input 中戈廿女戈 (LITVI), four-corner 5813₂, composition ⿰虫兹(G) or ⿰虫茲(HT) or ⿰虫玆(J))

Related characters

• 蛓 (Orthodox form in classical usage)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1094, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33368
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2876, character 16
• Unihan data for U+8786

• Unihan data for U+2F9BE

Chinese

Glyph origin

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

螆

1. Used in 螆蛦 (“type of giant tortoise”).

   alt. forms: 茲夷／兹夷

   Synonym: 蟕蠵

Etymology 3

From the non-aspirated reading of 疵 (cī).

Pronunciation

Definitions

螆

1. skin itch
2. parasite

Compounds

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C12389

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)