螟

螟 U+879F, 螟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-879F ← 螞 [U+879E] CJK Unified Ideographs 螠 → [U+87A0]

Translingual

Han character

螟 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月日金 (LIBAC), four-corner 5718₀, composition ⿰虫冥)

1. kind of caterpillar, larva

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1093, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33429
• Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2881, character 13
• Unihan data for U+879F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		螟
2nd round simp.		⿰虫名

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瞑	*meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ
嫇	*mreːŋ, *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
慏	*meŋʔ
冥	*meːŋ
榠	*meːŋ
鄍	*meːŋ
溟	*meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
螟	*meːŋ
猽	*meːŋ
蓂	*meːŋ, *meːɡ
覭	*meːŋ, *meːɡ
暝	*meːŋ, *meːŋs
幎	*meːɡ
幂	*meːɡ
塓	*meːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míng (ming²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: míng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: míng
    • Wade–Giles: ming²
    • Yale: míng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ming
    • Palladius: мин (min)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ming⁴
    • Yale: mìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ming²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: míng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng
    • Tâi-lô: bîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: beeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: meng

Rime
Character	螟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫經切
Baxter	meng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/meŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/meŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/meŋ/
Wang Li	/mieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*meːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螟
Reading #	1/1
No.	9201
Phonetic component	冥
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	冥
Old Chinese	/*meːŋ/

Definitions

螟

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Compounds

• 三化螟蟲 / 三化螟虫
• 二化螟
• 玉米螟 (yùmimíng)
• 螟害
• 螟蛉 (mínglíng)
• 螟蛉子 (mínglíngzǐ)
• 螟蛾 (míng'é)
• 螟螣
• 螟蟲 / 螟虫
• 蟭螟

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “螟”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

Japanese

Kanji

螟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: めい (mei)
• On: べい (bei)
• Kun: ずいむし (zuimushi)

Korean

Hanja

螟 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng, Yale myeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螟 (minh)