蠪

蠪 U+882A, 蠪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-882A ← 蠩 [U+8829] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠫 → [U+882B]

Translingual

Han character

蠪 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜心中一戈 (YPLMI), four-corner 0113₆, composition ⿱龍虫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1102, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33833
• Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2905, character 7
• Unihan data for U+882A

Chinese

trad.		蠪
simp.		𰲴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
驡	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *roŋ
龐	*broːŋ
瀧	*rroːŋ, *sroːŋ, *roːŋ
籠	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *roŋ
豅	*roːŋ
朧	*roːŋ, *roŋs
龓	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
聾	*roːŋ
礱	*roːŋ, *roːŋs
嚨	*roːŋ
蘢	*roːŋ, *roŋ
櫳	*roːŋ
襱	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ, *r'oŋʔ
瓏	*roːŋ
曨	*roːŋ, *roːŋʔ
鸗	*roːŋ, *roŋ
蠪	*roːŋ
巃	*roːŋʔ
竉	*roːŋʔ
攏	*roːŋʔ
儱	*roːŋʔ, *roŋs
龍	*b·roŋ, *mroːŋ
躘	*roŋ, *roŋs
隴	*roŋʔ
壠	*roŋʔ
壟	*roŋʔ
寵	*r̥ʰoŋʔ
龏	*kloŋ, *kloŋs, *qroːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóng (long²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lóng
    • Wade–Giles: lung²
    • Yale: lúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: long
    • Palladius: лун (lun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lung⁴
    • Yale: lùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: luwng

Rime
Character	蠪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧紅切
Baxter	luwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/luŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/luŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwŋ/
Li Rong	/luŋ/
Wang Li	/luŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lung4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8426
Phonetic component	龍
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	籠
Old Chinese	/*roːŋ/

Definitions

蠪

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a large kind of ant
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Used in 蚵蠪／蚵𰲴.
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Used in 蚗蠪／蚗𰲴.
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Used in 蠪蛭／𰲴蛭 and 蠪姪／𰲴侄.