黐

黐 (Kangxi radical 202, 黍+10, 22 strokes, cangjie input 竹水卜山月 (HEYUB), four-corner 2012₇, composition ⿰黍离)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1518, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48027
• Dae Jaweon: page 2051, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4762, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9ED0

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rel, *r̥ʰel): semantic 黍 (“glutinous millet”) + phonetic 离 (OC *rel, *r̥ʰel).

黐

1. ^† birdlime
2. ^† (Cantonese, Southern Min) sticky
3. ^† (Cantonese) to stick

   黐膠布／黐胶布 [Cantonese]  ―  ci¹ gaau¹ bou³   ―  to put a band-aid on

   alt. forms: 痴 (chī), 癡 / 痴 (chī)

4. (Cantonese) to draw close
5. (Cantonese) to freeload
6. (Cantonese) Short for 黐線／黐线 (ci1 sin3, “crazy”).

黐

1. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) dilatory; long-winded; prolonged in time (of talking, doing things, etc.)

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. birdlime
2. sticky, stickiness, something sticky

• Go-on: ち (chi)、り (ri)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)、り (ri)
• Kun: もち (mochi, 黐)

• 黐擌(はが) (haga), 黐擌(はご) (hago)

Cognate with 糯 (mochi, “glutinous rice”).^[1][2][3] The term mochi appears to have had a root meaning of sticky, stickiness, something sticky,^[4][5] possibly from 持ち (mochi, “holding”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 持つ (motsu, “to hold”).

The birdlime sense appears to have arisen from the use of a substance similar to pounded 糯 (mochi, “glutinous rice”) to trap birds and other small animals. This substance was derived primarily from the bark of the 黐の木 (mochi no ki, “Ilex integra, the mochi tree, a variety of holly”).^[1][3][6]

First appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.^[1][7]

• (Tokyo) もち (Atamadaka – )^[3][6]
• IPA^(key):

黐(もち) or 黐(モチ) • (mochi) 

1. birdlime (adhesive substance used for trapping birds)

   Synonym: 鳥黐 (torimochi)

2. Short for 黐の木 (mochi no ki): Ilex integra, a species of holly

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as モチ.

黐 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

1. to stick
2. sticky