蠹

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See also: 蠧 and 螙
蠹 U+8839, 蠹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8839
← 蠸
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蠺 →

Translingual

Han character

蠹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 40136, composition ⿳⿱𰀉冖石䖵)

  1. moth
  2. insects which eat into cloth

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8839

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蠹
2nd round simp. 𫊥
alternative forms 蠧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (石) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
柘 *tjaɡs
妬 *taːɡs
蠹 *taːɡs
沰 *taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
拓 *tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
橐 *tʰaːɡ
袥 *tʰaːɡ
驝 *tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
斫 *tjaɡ
磭 *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔 *rtaːɡ
跖 *tjaɡ
石 *djaɡ
碩 *djaɡ
祏 *djaɡ
鉐 *djaɡ
鼫 *djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taːɡs) : phonetic 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic 䖵 (“insect”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蠹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 當故切
Baxter tuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuoH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/toH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɔH/
Li
Rong 		/toH/
Wang
Li 		/tuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dou3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁak-s/
English grubs in wood, vermin

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 蠹
Reading # 1/1
No. 11456
Phonetic
component 		石
Rime
group 		暮
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		妒
Old
Chinese 		/*taːɡs/

Definitions

蠹

  1. insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
    1. (specifically) silverfish
  2. (figuratively) harmful person; vermin
  3. to erode; to eat away at
  4. moth-eaten; worm-eaten

Synonyms

  • (silverfish):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蠹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): と (to)、つ (tsu)
  • Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)、しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

蠹 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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