Translingual

Han character

蜩 (radical 142 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月土口 (LIBGR), four-corner 5712₀, composition ⿰虫周)

1. cicada, broad locust

References

• KangXi: page 1086, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33166
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2865, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8729

Cantonese

Hanzi

蜩 ‎(Jyutping tiu4, Yale tiu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: ひぐらし (higurashi), せみ (semi)

Compounds

• 茅蜩 (ひぐらし) ‎(higurashi), 茅蜩 (ぼうちょう) ‎(bōchō): evening cicada

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひぐらし [hìgúráshí] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [çiɡ̃ɯᵝɾ̠a̠ɕi]

Alternative forms

• 茅蜩
• 晩蝉

Noun

蜩 ‎(hiragana ひぐらし, katakana ヒグラシ, romaji higurashi)

1. evening cicada

Synonyms

• 茅蜩 (ぼうちょう) ‎(bōchō)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
• (Tokyo) かなかな [kànákáná] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• (Tokyo) かなかな​ [kànákánáꜜ] (Odaka - [4])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠na̠kã̠na̠]

Noun

蜩 ‎(hiragana かなかな, katakana カナカナ, romaji kanakana)

1. evening cicada

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

蜩 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蜩 ‎(Pinyin tiáo (tiao2), Wade-Giles t'iao²)

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