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蠃
蠃
Translingual
Han character
蠃 (radical 142 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓中一戈 (YNLMI), four-corner 00217)
References
- KangXi: page 1099, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33685
- Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2122, character 17
- Unihan data for U+8803
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
蠃 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 蠃
|
|---|
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (蠃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 驘 | *roːl |
| 鸁 | *roːl |
| 蠃 | *roːl, *roːlʔ |
| 臝 | *roːlʔ |
| 羸 | *rol |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˇ
- Wade-Giles: luo3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoo
- IPA (key): /lu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ
- Wade-Giles: luo2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luo
- IPA (key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lo2, lo5, lo4
- Yale: ló, lóh, lòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: lo2, lo5, lo4
- IPA (key): /lɔː³⁵/, /lɔː¹³/, /lɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蠃 | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 落戈切 | 郎果切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/lwa/ | /lwaX/ |
| Li Rong |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Wang Li |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/luɑ/ | /luɑX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
luó | luǒ |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
luǒ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lwaX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*rˤorʔ/ (*kˤorʔ.rˤorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˤorʔ ?) |
| English | 蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 蠃 | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 8690 | 8692 |
| Phonetic component |
蠃 | 蠃 |
| Rime group |
歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
𩼊 | 裸 |
| Old Chinese |
/*roːl/ | /*roːlʔ/ |
| Notes | 說文又義後作螺 | |
Definitions
蠃
- (literary) the solitary wasp; a potter wasp
- 蜾蠃 (“a potter wasp”)
- (archaic) a conch
Japanese
Kanji
蠃
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