蠍

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See also: 蝎
蠍 U+880D, 蠍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-880D
← 蠌
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蠎 →

Translingual

Han character

蠍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日女人 (LIAVO), four-corner 57182, composition ⿰虫歇)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33707
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1564, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2896, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+880D

Chinese

trad. 蠍/蝎*
simp. 蝎*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愒 *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤 *qaːds
靄 *qaːds, *qaːd
餲 *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝 *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭 *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈 *ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲 *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛 *kaːd
輵 *kaːd
獦 *klaːd, *rab
渴 *kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑 *kʰaːd
暍 *qʰaːd, *qad
曷 *ɡaːd
褐 *ɡaːd
鶡 *ɡaːd
毼 *ɡaːd
蝎 *ɡaːd
鞨 *ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏 *qaːd
齃 *qaːd
堨 *qaːd
擖 *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬 *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅 *kʰrad
藒 *kʰrad
竭 *ɡrad, *ɡad
碣 *ɡrad, *ɡad
羯 *kad
鍻 *kad
歇 *qʰad
蠍 *qʰad
謁 *qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰad) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 歇 (OC *qʰad).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蠍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 月 (67)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許謁切
Baxter xjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨat̚/
Li
Rong 		/xiɐt̚/
Wang
Li 		/xĭɐt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xɨ̯ɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hit3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蠍
Reading # 1/1
No. 5065
Phonetic
component 		曷
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰad/

Definitions

蠍

  1. scorpion
    蠍子／蝎子  ―  xiēzi  ―  scorpion

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蠍子 (“scorpion”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蠍子
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 蠍子
Harbin 蠍子
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 蠍子
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 蠍子
Central Plains Mandarin Wanrong 蠍子
Xi'an 蠍子
Xining 蠍子
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 蠍子
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 蠍子
Ürümqi 蠍子
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 蠍子
Liuzhou 蠍子
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 蠍子
Yangzhou 蠍子
Cantonese Hong Kong 蠍子
Dongguan 蠍子
Gan Lichuan 蠍子
Hakka Meixian 蠍
Jin Taiyuan 蠍子
Xinzhou 蠍子
Eastern Min Fuzhou 蠍
Southern Min Xiamen 蠍仔
Tainan 蠍仔
Penang (Hokkien) 象夾
Leizhou 翹尾蟻
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 蠍子
Wu Shanghai 蠍子
Danyang 蠍子
Hangzhou 蠍子
Wenzhou 蠍
Jinhua 蠍子
Xiang Changsha 蠍子

Compounds

References

Japanese

蠍(sasori)

Kanji

蠍

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. scorpion

Readings

  • Go-on: こち (kochi)
  • Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
  • Kan’yō-on: かつ (katsu)
  • Kun: さそり (sasori, 蠍)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蠍
さそり
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
蝎
 サソリ on Japanese Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

Noun

蠍(さそり) or 蠍(サソリ) • (sasori) 

  1. a scorpion (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蠍 • (gal) (hangeul 갈)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠍: Hán Nôm readings: hiết, hạt, yết

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