虻
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Translingual
Han character
虻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜女 (LIYV), four-corner 50110, composition ⿰虫亡)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32835
- Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2835, character 12
- Unihan data for U+867B
Chinese
| trad. | 虻 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 虻 | |
| alternative forms | 蝱／虻 䖟 | |
Glyph origin
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 忙 | *maːŋ |
| 芒 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 茫 | *maːŋ |
| 恾 | *maːŋ |
| 吂 | *maːŋ, *maːŋs |
| 汒 | *maːŋ, *maŋs |
| 朚 | *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs |
| 邙 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 杗 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 荒 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs |
| 肓 | *hmaːŋ |
| 衁 | *hmaːŋ |
| 巟 | *hmaːŋ |
| 詤 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ |
| 慌 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ |
| 謊 | *hmaːŋʔ |
| 喪 | *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ |
| 亡 | *maŋ |
| 望 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 莣 | *maŋ |
| 朢 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 鋩 | *maŋ |
| 硭 | *maŋ |
| 忘 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 网 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 罔 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 蛧 | *maŋʔ |
| 網 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 輞 | *maŋʔ |
| 棢 | *maŋʔ |
| 惘 | *maŋʔ |
| 菵 | *maŋʔ |
| 誷 | *maŋʔ |
| 魍 | *maŋʔ |
| 妄 | *maŋs |
| 盲 | *mraːŋ |
| 蝱 | *mraːŋ |
| 虻 | *mraːŋ |
| 氓 | *mraːŋ |
| 甿 | *mraːŋ |
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (“fly, bee”). Cognate with 蠅 (OC *m-rəŋ > *m-ləŋ, “fly”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, “bee”), Burmese ယင် (yang, “fly”), Chepang याङ् (“insect; fly”), Japhug ɣʑo (“bee”) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mong4 / mang4
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: méng
- Wade–Giles: mêng2
- Yale: méng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
- Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mong4 / mang4
- Yale: mòhng / màhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: mong4 / mang4
- Guangdong Romanization: mong4 / meng4
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔːŋ²¹/, /mɐŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: morng2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɒŋ¹³/
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋ/
Definitions
虻
Compounds
References
- “虻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “虻”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 154.
Japanese
Kanji
虻
Readings
- Go-on: みょう (myō)←みやう (myau, historical)
- Kan-on: もう (mō)←まう (mau, historical)
- Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō)←ばう (bau, historical)
- Kun: あぶ (abu, 虻)
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 虻 |
| あぶ Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 蝱 |
Pronunciation
Noun
- a horsefly
Derived terms
- 花虻 (hanābu)
Idioms
Idioms
- 虻蜂取らず (abu hachi torazu)
References
- Yoshida, Masatoshi et.al. Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary. Tokyo: Kodansha International (JPN), 1993. →ISBN.
Korean
Hanja
虻 • (meong) (hangeul 멍, revised meong, McCune–Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)
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