螟

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螟 U+879F, 螟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-879F
← 螞
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 螠 →

Translingual

Han character

螟 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月日金 (LIBAC), four-corner 57180, composition ⿰虫冥)

  1. kind of caterpillar, larva

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1093, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33429
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2881, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+879F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 螟
2nd round simp. ⿰虫名

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瞑 *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ
嫇 *mreːŋ, *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
慏 *meŋʔ
冥 *meːŋ
榠 *meːŋ
鄍 *meːŋ
溟 *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
螟 *meːŋ
猽 *meːŋ
蓂 *meːŋ, *meːɡ
覭 *meːŋ, *meːɡ
暝 *meːŋ, *meːŋs
幎 *meːɡ
幂 *meːɡ
塓 *meːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 螟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫經切
Baxter meng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/meŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/meŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/meŋ/
Wang
Li 		/mieŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		míng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ming4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 螟
Reading # 1/1
No. 9201
Phonetic
component 		冥
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		冥
Old
Chinese 		/*meːŋ/

Definitions

螟

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Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “螟”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

Japanese

Kanji

螟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: みょう (myō)
  • Kan-on: めい (mei)
  • On: べい (bei)
  • Kun: ずいむし (zuimushi)

Korean

Hanja

螟 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng, Yale myeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螟 (minh)

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