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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜女 (LIYV), four-corner 50110)

  1. horsefly, gadfly

References

  • KangXi: page 1077, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32835
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2835, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+867B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋs
*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
*hmaːŋʔ
*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*mlaŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋs
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12691
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mraːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 牛虻
  • 花虻
  • 蚊虻之勞蚊虻之劳
  • 食蟲虻食虫虻

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana あぶ, katakana アブ, romaji abu)

  1. horsefly

Idioms


Korean

Hanja

(meong) (hangeul , revised meong, McCune-Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)

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