螻

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See also: 蝼
螻 U+87BB, 螻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BB
← 螺
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 螼 →

Translingual

Han character

螻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈中田女 (LILWV), four-corner 55144, composition ⿰虫婁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33515
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2885, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+87BB

Chinese

trad. 螻
simp. 蝼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (婁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樓 *ɡ·roː
摟 *roː, *ro
耬 *roː
僂 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁 *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻 *roː
髏 *roː
蔞 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻 *roː
艛 *ɡ·roː
膢 *roː, *ro
廔 *roː
嘍 *roː, *roːʔ
瞜 *roː, *ro
簍 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺 *roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜 *roː, *ro
褸 *roː, *roʔ
遱 *roː
謱 *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁 *roːʔ, *roʔ
甊 *roːʔ
塿 *roːʔ
漊 *roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤 *roːs, *ro
瘻 *roːs, *ro
擻 *sloːʔ
藪 *sloːʔ
籔 *sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀 *ro
縷 *roʔ
屢 *ros
數 *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨 *klos
窶 *ɡloʔ
貗 *ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 螻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落侯切
Baxter luw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ləu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ləu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ləu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ləw/
Li
Rong 		/lu/
Wang
Li 		/ləu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/lə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lau4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 螻
Reading # 1/1
No. 8458
Phonetic
component 		婁
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		樓
Old
Chinese 		/*roː/

Definitions

螻

  1. † mole cricket

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 螻蛄 (“mole cricket”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 螻蛄, 𧕱, 螻螲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 螻蛄
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 蝲蝲蛄
Taiwan 螻蛄, 土狗
Harbin 蝲蝲蛄
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 螻蛄
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 螻蛄, 海陸空 humorous
Central Plains Mandarin Wanrong 螻蛄
Xining 地狗子
Xuzhou 螻蛄
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 土狗子
Lanzhou 土狗子
Ürümqi 蝲蝲蛄
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 土狗兒, 土狗, 土狗子
Wuhan 土狗子
Guiyang 土狗崽, 土狗
Liuzhou 土狗
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 土狗子
Yangzhou 土狗子
Nantong 土狗兒, 土狗
Cantonese Guangzhou 土狗
Hong Kong 土狗
Dongguan 草狗
Gan Nanchang 土狗子
Lichuan 土狗
Pingxiang 土狗子
Hakka Meixian 土狗仔
Xingning 土狗哩
Huidong (Daling) 土八仔
Shaoguan (Qujiang) 土猴子
Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 土狗
Changting 土猴哩, 土狗
Wuping 土狗子
Wuping (Pingyu) 土狗子
Liancheng 土狗
Ninghua 土狗子
Yudu 土狗子
Ruijin 兔狗子
Shicheng 土狗子
Shangyou (Shexi) 土狗子
Jin Taiyuan 蝲蛄
Pingyao 蝲蛄
Xinzhou 蝲蛄
Northern Min Jian'ou 沙猴仔
Eastern Min Fuzhou 塗犬
Fuqing 塗犬, 地鹿
Southern Min Xiamen 杜猴
Quanzhou 塗猴
Yongchun 塗猴
Zhangzhou 杜猴
Chaozhou 杜猴
Jieyang 杜猴
Leizhou 𫋐猴
Wu Shanghai 螻蛄, 油葫蘆
Shanghai (Chongming) 螻蛄
Suzhou 螻蛄
Danyang 地鱉狗子, 土狗 suburbs
Hangzhou 地狗兒
Ningbo 地狗, 游蛄
Wenzhou 土狗
Jinhua 土狗, 水狗兒
Xiang Changsha 土狗子

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

螻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ろう (rō)
  • Kun: けら (kera)

Compounds

  • 螻蛄 (おけら, okera and けら, kera)
  • 虫螻 (むしけら, mushikera)

Korean

Hanja

螻 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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