蠅

蠅 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口難山 (LIRXU), four-corner 5611₆, composition ⿰虫黽)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1099, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33690
• Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2897, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8805

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *b·lɯŋ) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 黽 (OC *mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (“fly; bee”). Compare 虻 (OC mˁraŋ, “"horsefly"”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, “bee”), Burmese ယင် (yang, “fly”), Chepang याङ् (“insect; fly”), Japhug ɣʑo (“bee”) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

蠅

1. fly; housefly

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蝿)

• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)
• Kun: はえ (hae, 蠅)

蠅(はえ) or 蠅(ハエ) • (hae) ^{←はへ (fafe)?}
(alternative reading hiragana はい, rōmaji hai, historical hiragana はひ)

1. Kyūjitai form of 蝿 (“fly”) (insect of the family Muscidae)

蠅 (eum 승 (seung))

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