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蝤

蝤

Translingual

Han character

蝤 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿金田 (LITCW), four-corner 58161)

  1. (obsolete) the larva of an Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
  2. the chrysalis of a kind of beetle
  3. an ephemera
  4. a mayfly

References

  • KangXi: page 1090, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33293
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2873, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8764

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蝤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (酉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楢 *kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎 *ʔslu
遒 *sklu, *sɡlu
蝤 *sklu, *sɡlu
揂 *sklu
酒 *ʔsluʔ
媨 *sklus
鞧 *skʰlu
緧 *skʰlu
趥 *skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋 *sɡlu
崷 *sɡlu
鰌 *sɡlu
煪 *sɡlu
醜 *l̥ʰjuʔ
猶 *klus, *lu, *lus
猷 *lu
輶 *lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤 *lu
莤 *lu, *sruɡ
蕕 *lu
庮 *lu, *luʔ
槱 *luʔ, *lus
梄 *luʔ
丣 *luʔ
酉 *luʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝤 蝤
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 即由切 自秋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨu/ /d͡zɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siu/ /d͡ziu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡siəu/ /d͡ziəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡suw/ /d͡zuw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siu/ /d͡ziu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭəu/ /d͡zĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ə̯u/ /d͡zʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiū qiú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]u/
English 蝤蠐 tree-grub

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 蝤 蝤
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15552 15561
Phonetic
component		 酉 酉
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 遒 酋
Old
Chinese		 /*sklu/ /*sɡlu/

Definitions

蝤

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Compounds

  • 蝤蛑
  • 蝤蠐／蝤蛴
  • 領如蝤蠐／领如蝤蛴

References

Japanese

Kanji

蝤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蝤 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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