蠼

蠼 U+883C, 蠼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-883C ← 蠻 [U+883B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠽 → [U+883D]

Translingual

Han character

蠼 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+20, 26 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月山水 (LIBUE), four-corner 5614₇, composition ⿰虫矍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33928
• Dae Jaweon: page 1568, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2910, character 6
• Unihan data for U+883C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	*kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	*kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	*kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
戄	*ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 矍 (OC *kʷaɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qú, jué

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ, ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kû / kîr / kî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü²
    • Yale: chyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi⁴
    • Yale: kèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kû
    • Tâi-lô: kû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kîr
    • Tâi-lô: kîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/

Definitions

蠼

1. Only used in 蠼螋 (qúsōu).
2. earwig

Japanese

Kanji

蠼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: く (ku)
• Kun: おおざる (ōzaru)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蠼螋(はさみむし) (hasamimushi, “earwig; maritime earwig”)

Vietnamese

Han character

蠼: Hán Nôm readings: cù, quặc

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