螢

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See also: 萤 and 蛍
螢 U+87A2, 螢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87A2
← 螡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 螣 →

Translingual

Traditional 螢
Shinjitai 蛍
Simplified 萤

Han character

螢 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火火月中戈 (FFBLI), four-corner 99136, composition ⿱𤇾虫)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1093, character 45
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2881, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+87A2

Chinese

trad. 螢
simp. 萤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鶯 *qreːŋ
罃 *qreːŋ
嫈 *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮 *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮 *pqʰʷeːŋ
謍 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝 *qʷraːŋʔ
嶸 *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤 *ɢʷreːŋ
榮 *ɢʷreŋ
瑩 *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑 *ɢʷreŋ
禜 *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟 *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢 *ɡʷeŋ
焭 *ɡʷeŋ
縈 *qʷeŋ
營 *ɢʷeŋ
鎣 *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋 *ɢʷeŋ
濴 *ɢʷeŋ
熒 *ɡʷeːŋ
螢 *ɡʷeːŋ
滎 *ɡʷeːŋ
濙 *qʷeːŋʔ
瀅 *qʷeːŋs

Etymology

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Particularly: “Related to 熒 (OC *ɡʷeːŋ, “luminous, fluorescent; to shine, to shimmer, to dazzle”)?”

From 虫 "worm", 熒 "fluorescent" sound, indicating fireflies.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • êng - literary;
  • iâⁿ - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 螢
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ³⁵/
Harbin /iŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /iŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /iŋ²⁴/
Xining /iə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /in²¹³/
Chengdu /yn³¹/
Guiyang /in²¹/
Kunming /ĩ³¹/
Nanjing /in²⁴/
Hefei /in⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /yŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioŋ²³/
/ɦiŋ²³/
Suzhou /ɦin¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦin²¹³/
Wenzhou /joŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /iɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /yn¹³/
/ian¹³/
Xiangtan /yn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /yn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /in¹¹/
Taoyuan /in¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ²¹/
Nanning /jeŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /jiŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /iaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /iaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /ioŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /zɔŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 螢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸扃切
Baxter hweng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣueŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xióng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 螢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yíng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hweng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-qʷˁeŋ/
English glow-worm

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 螢
Reading # 1/1
No. 15387
Phonetic
component 		熒
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		熒
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷeːŋ/

Definitions

螢

  1. firefly

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

蛍

Kyūjitai

螢

Kanji

螢

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛍)

  1. firefly

Readings

  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)←ぎやう (gyau, historical)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)←けい (kei, historical)←くゑい (kwei, ancient)
  • Kun: ほたる (hotaru, 螢)

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of 螢 – see the following entry.
【蛍】S
jōyō kanji
Kanji reading:
ぎょう, けい, ほたる
(This term, 螢, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 螢 (MC hweng). Recorded as Middle Korean 혀ᇰ (hyeng) (Yale: hyeng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

螢 (eumhun 반딧불이 형 (banditburi hyeong))

  1. hanja form? of 형 (“glow-worm; luminous insect”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

螢: Hán Nôm readings: huỳnh

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