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Translingual
Han character
蟄 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土戈中一戈 (GILMI), four-corner 45136, composition ⿱執虫)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1096, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33537
- Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2883, character 1
- Unihan data for U+87C4
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 騺
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*tibs
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| 摯
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*tjibs
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| 贄
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*tjibs
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| 鷙
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*tjibs
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| 墊
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*tiːms, *diːb
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| 慹
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*tjeb, *ndiːb, *sdib, *tjib
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| 謺
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*tjeb
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| 褺
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*diːb
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| 蓻
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*stib
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| 縶
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*tib
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| 漐
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*tʰib
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| 蟄
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*dib
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| 執
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*tjib
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| 瓡
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*tjib
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dib) : phonetic 執 (OC *tjib) + semantic 虫 (“bug”).
Etymology
Possibly related to 揖 (jí, “to cluster together”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
Note:
- ti̍t/tia̍k/ta̍t - vernacular;
- ti̍p - literary.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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蟄
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhé
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ drip ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*rip/
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| English
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hibernate; cluster
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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蟄
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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17289
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Phonetic
component
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執
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Rime
group
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緝
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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蟄
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Old
Chinese
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/*dib/
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Definitions
蟄
- to hibernate
- to live in seclusion
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
蟄
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
蟄 • (chip) (hangeul 칩, revised chip, McCune–Reischauer ch'ip, Yale chip)
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