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螢

螢

See also: 萤 and 蛍

Translingual

Han character

螢 (radical 142 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火火月中戈 (FFBLI), four-corner 99136)

References

  • KangXi: page 1093, character 45
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2881, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+87A2

Chinese

trad. 螢
simp. 萤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鶯 *qreːŋ
罃 *qreːŋ
嫈 *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮 *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮 *pqʰʷeːŋ
謍 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝 *qʷraːŋʔ
嶸 *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤 *ɢʷreːŋ
榮 *ɢʷreŋ
瑩 *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑 *ɢʷreŋ
禜 *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟 *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢 *ɡʷeŋ
焭 *ɡʷeŋ
縈 *qʷeŋ
營 *ɢʷeŋ
鎣 *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋 *ɢʷeŋ
濴 *ɢʷeŋ
熒 *ɡʷeːŋ
螢 *ɡʷeːŋ
滎 *ɡʷeːŋ
濙 *qʷeːŋʔ
瀅 *qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 螢
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ³⁵/
Harbin /iŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /iŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /iŋ²⁴/
Xining /iə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /in²¹³/
Chengdu /yn³¹/
Guiyang /in²¹/
Kunming /ĩ³¹/
Nanjing /in²⁴/
Hefei /in⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /yŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioŋ²³/
/ɦiŋ²³/
Suzhou /ɦin¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦin²¹³/
Wenzhou /joŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /iɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /yn¹³/
/ian¹³/
Xiangtan /yn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /yn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /in¹¹/
Taoyuan /ub¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ²¹/
Nanning /jeŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /jiŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ioŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zɔŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 螢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸扃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣueŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xióng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 螢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yíng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hweng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-qʷˤeŋ/
English glow-worm

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 螢
Reading # 1/1
No. 15387
Phonetic
component		 熒
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 熒
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷeːŋ/

Definitions

螢

  1. firefly

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

螢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
螢
ほたる
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

螢 ‎(hiragana ほたる, katakana ホタル, romaji hotaru)

  1. Alternative spelling of 蛍

Korean

Hanja

螢 • ‎(hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螢 (huỳnh)

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