蚤

蚤 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中一戈 (EILMI), four-corner 1713₆, composition ⿱㕚虫(TJKV) or ⿱叉虫(G))

• 𠋺, 𠹏, 𢔳, 慅, 搔(掻), 溞, 𤠘, 𣉔, 㮻, 𤔢, 瑵, 𦞣, 糔, 𦃐, 𧎇, 𨃣, 𧒕, 騷(骚), 鰠(鳋)
• 㲧, 颾(𩙫), 𦻩, 𥰱, 𩮚, 鼜, 瘙

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1078, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1547, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86A4

Historical forms of the character 蚤
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 虫 (“insect”) + 㕚 (“claw”) – a scratching insect/pest.

蚤

1. flea
2. ^† Alternative form of 早

   • 蚤起，施從良人之所之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     蚤起，施从良人之所之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Zǎo qǐ, yí cóng liángrén zhī suǒ zhī.

     Accordingly, she got up early in the morning, and privately followed wherever her husband went.

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: のみ (nomi, 蚤)、はやい (hayai)

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ノミ

Wikipedia ^ja

Possibly derived from 飲み (nomi), the nominalized 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 飲む (nomu, “to drink”), from the way that fleas drink the host's blood.

• (Tokyo) のみ (Odaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

蚤(のみ) or 蚤(ノミ) • (nomi) 

1. flea (parasitic insect)

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

• 蚤(のみ)の市(いち) (nomi no ichi): a flea market
• 蚤(ノミ)の衾(フスマ) (nomi no fusuma)

蚤 (eum 조 (jo))

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(Hyōgai kanji)

1. flea

• Kun: ぬみ (numi, 蚤)

Cognate with Japanese 蚤 (nomi).

• IPA^(key): /numi/

蚤(ぬみ) (numi) 

1. flea

蚤: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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