蜎

蜎 U+870E, 蜎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-870E ← 蜍 [U+870D] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜏 → [U+870F]

蜎 U+2F9B9, 蜎 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9B9 ← 蚈 [U+2F9B8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 蛢 → [U+2F9BA]

Translingual

Han character

蜎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口月 (LIRB), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫肙)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33115
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 11
• Unihan data for U+870E

• Unihan data for U+2F9B9

Chinese

trad.		蜎
simp. #		蜎
alternative forms		蜵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
絹	*kʷens
狷	*kʷens, *kʷeːns
蜎	*ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲	*qʰʷen, *qʷeːn
娟	*qʷen
悁	*qʷen
捐	*ɢʷen
涓	*kʷeːn
鵑	*kʷeːn
睊	*kʷeːn, *kʷeːns
焆	*kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd
鞙	*kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ
埍	*kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ
罥	*kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns
羂	*kʷleːnʔ
瓹	*kʷeːns
梋	*qʰʷeːn
鋗	*qʰʷeːn
駽	*qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns
琄	*ɡʷeːnʔ
剈	*qʷeːn
肙	*qʷeːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn): semantic 虫 + phonetic 肙 (OC *qʷeːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuān (yuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuan
    • Wade–Giles: yüan¹
    • Yale: ywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun¹
    • Yale: yūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'wen, 'jwien, gjwienX

Rime
Character	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	先 (86)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	IV	III	III
Fanqie	烏玄切	於緣切	狂兖切
Baxter	'wen	'jwien	gjwienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔwen/	/ʔiuᴇn/	/ɡiuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷen/	/ʔʷiɛn/	/ɡʷiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuɛn/	/ʔjuæn/	/ɡjuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwɛn/	/ʔwian/	/gwianX/
Li Rong	/ʔuen/	/ʔiuɛn/	/ɡiuɛnX/
Wang Li	/iwen/	/ĭwɛn/	/ɡĭwɛnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔiwen/	/ʔi̯wɛn/	/gi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	yuān	juàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun1	jyun1	gyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷenʔ/, /*qʷˤen/, /*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷenʔ/, /*qʷen/, /*qʷeːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuān	yuān	yuān
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwienX ›	‹ ʔwen ›	‹ gjwienX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷenʔ/	/*qʷˁen/	/*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/
English	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	16063	16067	16090
Phonetic component	肙	肙	肙
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蜎	娟	淵
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷenʔ/	/*qʷen/	/*qʷeːn/

Definitions

蜎

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) mosquito larva

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 孑孓 (“wriggler; wiggler; mosquito larva”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蜎
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		孑孓
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	跟頭蟲兒
	Taiwan	孑孓
	Langfang	跟頭蟲兒
	Harbin	跟頭蟲兒
Jilu Mandarin	Tangshan	跟頭蟲兒
	Cangzhou	跟頭蟲
	Baoding	跟頭蟲兒
	Shijiazhuang	跟頭蟲
	Jinan	跟頭蟲, 跟頭蟲子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	打老鬼, 孑孓
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	跟頭蟲兒, 孑孓
	Daming	跟頭蟲兒
	Wanrong	顛倒子, 水擔圪斗
	Xuzhou	孑孓, 跟頭蟲
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	跟頭蟲
	Ürümqi	跟頭蟲
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	跟斗兒蟲, 沙蟲子
	Wuhan	跟頭蟲
	Guiyang	跟斗蟲
	Guilin	孑孓
	Liuzhou	跟斗蟲
	Nanning (Wuming)	沙蟲, 孑孓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	蠓蟲
Cantonese	Guangzhou	孑孓, 沙蟲, 沙屎蟲, 蚊蟲, 紅蟲
	Hong Kong	孑孓, 沙蟲
	Kaiping (Chikan)	逕蟲
	Nanning	沙蟲
	Nanning (Tanka)	沙蟲
	Wuzhou	沙蟲
	Yulin	曲曲蛆
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	沙蟲
Gan	Pingxiang	沙蟲
Hakka	Meixian	屎蛆仔, 水蛆仔, 蛆仔
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	沙蟲
	Yudu	沙蟲子
Huizhou	Jixi	打滾蟲
Jin	Taiyuan	道跌子
	Taiyuan (Jiancaoping)	道跌子
	Pingyao	卜來來
	Xinzhou	吊孑子
	Zhangjiakou	耍錢棍兒
	Handan	跟頭蟲子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	變魚蟲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	把啷鼓墜
Southern Min	Xiamen	車蛆, 蛆
	Quanzhou	車蛆, 蛆
	Jinjiang	車蛆
	Zhangzhou	車蛆, 蛆
	Tainan	水蛆
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	末仔
	Shantou	蛆
	Jieyang	蛆, 大頭蛆
	Leizhou	蛆蟲
	Haikou	雨蟲
Puxian Min	Putian	蛆, 蛆蟲
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	蛆
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	蛆
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	蛆蟲
	Xianyou	蛆
	Xianyou (Fengting)	蛆
	Xianyou (Youyang)	蛆
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	蠓蟲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	沙蟲
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	沙蟲
Wu	Shanghai	打拳蛆
	Shanghai (Chongming)	孓襻蟲
	Suzhou	打拳蟲
	Danyang	水孑孓, 彎蟲
	Hangzhou	倒督蟲兒
	Ningbo	棲蟲
	Wenzhou	蛆蟲
	Jinhua	骨骨蟲, 各各蟲
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	糞缸蟲
Xiang	Changsha	沙蟲子
	Loudi	紅紗蟲

Compounds

• 蜎蜎
• 蟺蜎

References

• “蜎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

蜎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、けん (ken)、げん (gen)
• Kun: ぼうふら (bōfura)