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虺

虺

See also: 蝰

Translingual

Han character

虺 (radical 142 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一山中一戈 (MULMI), four-corner 15213, composition ⿺兀虫)

  1. large poisonous snake
  2. sick
  3. lacking ambition

References

  • KangXi: page 1077, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32833
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2834, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+867A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 虺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
虺 *hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ
豗 *hŋuːl
鼿 *hŋuːl, *ŋuːd
虫 *hŋlulʔ
髡 *ŋ̥ʰuːn
軏 *ŋod, *ŋuːd
扤 *ŋod, *ŋuːd
兀 *ŋuːd
杌 *ŋuːd
屼 *ŋuːd
矹 *ŋluːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 虺 虺 虺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 皆 (34) 灰 (42) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) II I III
Fanqie 呼懷切 呼恢切 許偉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠuɛi/ /huʌi/ /hʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷᵚæi/ /huoi/ /hʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɐi/ /xuɒi/ /xiuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwəɨj/ /hwəj/ /hujX/
Li
Rong		 /xuɛi/ /xuᴀi/ /xiuəiX/
Wang
Li		 /xwɐi/ /xuɒi/ /xĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xwăi/ /xuɑ̆i/ /xwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huāi huī huǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虺 虺 虺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huī huǐ huǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwoj › ‹ xjwɨjX › ‹ xjwɨjX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r̥]ˤu[j]/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) /*[r̥]u[j]ʔ/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-) /*r̥u[j]ʔ/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-)
English exhausted, weary snake-brood sound of thunder

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 虺 虺 虺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 13189 13192 13193
Phonetic
component		 兀 兀 兀
Rime
group		 微 微 微
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 灰 虺 虺
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋuːl/ /*hŋruːl/ /*hŋlulʔ/

Definitions

虺

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References

Japanese

Kanji

虺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. large poisonous snake

Readings

Korean

Hanja

虺 • ‎(hwe) (hangeul 훼, revised hwe, McCune-Reischauer hwe, Yale hwey)

  1. viper
  2. big snake

Vietnamese

Han character

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