蚊

蚊 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜大 (LIYK), four-corner 5014₀, composition ⿰虫文)

• 𡦉

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32849
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2840, character 8
• Unihan data for U+868A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯn) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn).

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *muujs with a nominal suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Khmer មូស (muuh), Vietnamese muỗi.

蚊

1. mosquito (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

From 文 (man4, “classifier for copper coins”).

蚊

1. (Cantonese) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck; ringgit; dong

   兩百蚊／两百蚊 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ baak³ man^4-1   ―  two hundred bucks

Cognate to Taishanese (and other Siyi dialects) 民 (min2), as in 細民仔／细民仔.

Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may come from the same etymon that gives 便 (OC *ben) as in 便嬖 (OC *ben peːɡs), which he relates to Proto-Kam-Sui *mpaːn¹ (“male (person)”) and Proto-Hlai *C-maːn (“male (person)”).

蚊

1. (Cantonese) Used in terms for people.

• “蚊”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mosquito

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: か (ka, 蚊, Jōyō)、かあ (kā, 蚊)

From Old Japanese. Possibly related to 噛む (kamu, “to bite”) or 痒い (kayui, “itchy”), although the ultimate derivation remains unknown.

• (Tokyo) か (Heiban – )^[1][2]
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蚊(か) • (ka) 

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 161:

     蚊蟻 上可 下音疑 訓安利乃古

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Cognate with 蚊 (ka). Likely pronounced long due to being a single mora. Elongation of single mora words is still seen in the Ōsaka dialect with words like teː "hand" from te. The 794 quotation is the oldest extant example of a long vowel in Japanese.

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蚊(かあ) • (kā) 

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 104:

     蚊蝄䖟蜺 [...] 上二字加安下二字阿牟

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi, page 3 (back):

     蚊 加阿

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN.
• Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.

蚊 (eum 문 (mun))

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蚊: Hán Nôm readings: văn, mân

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