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Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹十木 (LIHJD), four-corner 55190, composition)

  1. spider

References

  • KangXi: page 1081, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33002
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1550, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2849, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+86DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
*to
*to
*to
*to
*to
*to, *tʰjo
*to, *tjo
*to
*to, *djo
*do
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo, *tjos
*tjo
*tjo
*tʰjo
*djo
*djo
*djo
*djo

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈio/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuə̆/
Li
Rong
/ȶio/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhū
Middle
Chinese
‹ trju ›
Old
Chinese
/*tro/
English *tre-tro spider

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17564
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*to/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Only used in 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū).

Compounds

  • 棚蜘蛛
  • 水蜘蛛
  • 海蜘蛛
  • 草蜘蛛
  • 蛛煤
  • 蛛絲蛛丝
  • 蛛絲馬跡蛛丝马迹
  • 蛛網蛛网 (zhūwǎng)
  • 蛛網塵封蛛网尘封
  • 蛛蛛
  • 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū)
  • 蜘蛛抱蛋
  • 蜘蛛綱蜘蛛纲

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ju) (hangeul , revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chu, châu, chẫu, thù)

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