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蝦

蝦

See also: 虾

Translingual

Han character

蝦 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口尸水 (LIRSE), four-corner 57147, composition ⿰虫叚)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1090, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33299
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2874, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8766

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蝦
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (叚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
葭 *kraː
麚 *kraː
瘕 *kraː, *kraːʔ
豭 *kraː
貑 *kraː
猳 *kraː
犌 *kraː
假 *kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏 *kraːʔ
婽 *kraːʔ
椵 *kraːʔ
叚 *kraːʔ
蝦 *qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆 *qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞 *ɡraː
遐 *ɡraː
瑕 *ɡraː
鰕 *ɡraː
碬 *ɡraː
蕸 *ɡraː
赮 *ɡraː
鍜 *ɡraː
騢 *ɡraː
暇 *ɡraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰraː, *ɡraː) : semantic 虫 ‎(“insect”) + phonetic 叚 ‎(OC *kraːʔ).

Etymology 1

trad. 蝦
simp. 虾
alt. forms 鰕／𫚥
𧎂

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 蝦 (魚蝦)
Mandarin Beijing /ɕia⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕia⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑ²¹/
Jinan /ɕia²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕia²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕia²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕia²¹/
Xining /ɕia⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕia⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕia³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕia⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕia⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xa⁵⁵/
/ɕia⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕia⁵⁵/
/xa⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕia̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕiɑ³¹/
Hefei /ɕia²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕia¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɑ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕia³¹/
Wu Shanghai /hø⁵³/
/ho⁵³/
Suzhou /ho⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɑ³³/
Wenzhou /ho³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕia³¹/
/xa³¹/
Tunxi /xɔn²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕia³³/
/xa³³/
Xiangtan /hɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang /hɑ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ha¹¹/
Taoyuan /hɑ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ha⁵⁵/
Nanning /ha⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ha⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ha³⁵/
/he³⁵/ 匣母
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ha⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xa³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /he⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hɛ³¹/
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝦
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤra/
English shrimp

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 蝦
Reading # 1/2
No. 5962
Phonetic
component		 叚
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰraː/
Notes 見楚辭九懷

Definitions

蝦

  1. shrimp; prawn; lobster
    毛蝦 / 毛虾  ―  máoxiā  ―  shrimp
    明蝦 / 明虾  ―  míngxiā  ―  prawn
    龍蝦 / 龙虾  ―  lóngxiā  ―  lobster
    蝦片 / 虾片  ―  xiāpiàn  ―  prawn crackers
  2. to bend; to curve; to flex

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 蝦
simp. 虾

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣa/
Wang
Li		 /ɣa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝦
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 há
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤra/
English hae-mae frog

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 蝦
Reading # 2/2
No. 5968
Phonetic
component		 叚
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 遐
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡraː/

Definitions

蝦

  1. Only used in 蝦蟆／虾蟆.

Compounds

Etymology 3

trad. 蝦
simp. 虾
alt. forms 㗇

Compare Zhuang ha.

Pronunciation

Definitions

蝦

  1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southwestern Mandarin, Zhongshan Min Nan) to bully; to pick on

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝦 – see 霞.
(This character, 蝦, is an ancient form of 霞.)

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝦 – see 徦.
(This character, 蝦, is a variant form of 徦.)

Japanese

Kanji

蝦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. lobster, prawn, shrimp

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
蝦
えび
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

蝦 ‎(hiragana えび, katakana エビ, romaji ebi)

  1. lobster, prawn, shrimp

References

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

Korean

Hanja

蝦 • ‎(ha) (hangeul 하, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝦 (hà)

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