螽斯

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Chinese

(grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado phonetic; this
simp. and trad.
(螽斯) 		螽 斯
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 螽 斯
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 東 (2) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 職戎切 息移切
Baxter tsyuwng sje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨuŋ/ /siᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /siɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /sjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuwŋ/ /siə̆/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /sie/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭuŋ/ /sǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/ /sie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhōng sī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zung1 si1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 螽 斯 斯
Reading # 1/1 1/3 2/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhōng sī sī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyuwng › ‹ sje › ‹ sje ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tuŋ/ /*e/ /*e/
English tsyuwng.sje locust split (v.) this

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 螽 斯
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2429 11995
Phonetic
component 		冬 斯
Rime
group 		終 支
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		終 斯
Old
Chinese 		/*tjuŋ/ /*se/
Notes 朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字，
非其聲

Noun

螽斯

  1. katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
螽 斯
Hyōgai Jinmeiyō
irregular
Alternative spellings
螽蟖
蟋蟀
蛬

Etymology

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 螽斯 (zhōngsī)

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “sounds like Old Japanese onomatopoeia, compare with ぎりぎり (girigiri)”

Pronunciation

Noun

螽斯(きりぎりす) or 螽斯(キリギリス) • (kirigirisu) 

  1. a Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)
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