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蜘

蜘

See also: 鼅

Translingual

Han character

蜘 (radical 142 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人大口 (LIOKR), four-corner 56100, composition ⿰虫知)

  1. spider

References

  • KangXi: page 1085, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33134
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2862, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8718

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蜘
alt. forms 鼅
䵹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
彘 *l'eds
璏 *l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙 *l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知 *ʔl'e
蜘 *te
智 *ʔl'es
鼅 *te
潪 *teɡs, *deɡ
踟 *de
雉 *l'iʔ
矢 *hliʔ
痴 *l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *te) : semantic 虫 ‎(“insect; insect-like creature”) + phonetic 知 ‎(OC *ʔl'e). Originally 鼅 (OC *te), which was originally 䵹.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蜘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 陟移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ȶie/
Wang
Li		 /ȶǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zh-
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蜘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tre/
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 蜘
Reading # 1/1
No. 11496
Phonetic
component		 矢
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*te/
Notes 同鼅見太玄，說文作蟲上知於

Definitions

蜘

  1. Only used in 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū).

Compounds

  • 棚蜘蛛
  • 水蜘蛛
  • 海蜘蛛
  • 蜘蛛抱蛋
  • 蜘蛛綱／蜘蛛纲

Japanese

Kanji

蜘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蜘 • ‎(ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜘 (tri)

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