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蠹

蠹

See also: 蠧

Translingual

Han character

蠹 (radical 142 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 40136)

  1. moth
  2. insects which eat into cloth

References

  • KangXi: page 1104, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2908, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8839

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蠹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠹
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (石) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
柘 *tjaɡs
妬 *taːɡs
蠹 *taːɡs
沰 *taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
拓 *tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
橐 *tʰaːɡ
袥 *tʰaːɡ
驝 *tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
斫 *tjaɡ
磭 *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̥ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔 *rtaːɡ
跖 *tjaɡ
石 *djaɡ
碩 *djaɡ
祏 *djaɡ
鉐 *djaɡ
鼫 *djaɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蠹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 當故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /toH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tɔH/
Li
Rong		 /toH/
Wang
Li		 /tuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤak-s/
English grubs in wood, vermin

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 蠹
Reading # 1/1
No. 11456
Phonetic
component		 石
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 妒
Old
Chinese		 /*taːɡs/

Definitions

蠹

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Compounds

  • 國蠹／国蠹
  • 巨蠹
  • 戶樞不蠹／户枢不蠹
  • 書蠹／书蠹
  • 朽蠹
  • 桂蠹
  • 民蠹
  • 狡蠹
  • 祛蠹除奸
  • 祿蠹／禄蠹
  • 積蠹／积蠹
  • 蠹國／蠹国
  • 蠹國害民／蠹国害民
  • 蠹國殃民／蠹国殃民
  • 蠹害
  • 蠹居棋處／蠹居棋处
  • 蠹政
  • 蠹書蟲／蠹书虫
  • 蠹簡／蠹简
  • 蠹蟲／蠹虫
  • 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
  • 衙蠹
  • 貪官蠹役／贪官蠹役
  • 鯗蠹／鲞蠹

Japanese

Kanji

蠹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: と (to), つ (tsu)
  • Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi), しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

蠹 • ‎(du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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