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蛾

蛾

Translingual

Han character

蛾 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹手戈 (LIHQI), four-corner 53150, composition ⿰虫我)

  1. moth

References

  • KangXi: page 1083, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33082
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2856, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+86FE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蛾

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蛾
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋa/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑ/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 é
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蛾
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 é
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nga ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋˤaj/
English silkworm moth [Bombyx]

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 蛾
Reading # 1/2
No. 13036
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 莪
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːl/
Notes 見荀子，說文下從二蟲

Noun

蛾

  1. moth
  2. Short for 蛾眉 (éméi).

Proper noun

蛾

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2

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

Japanese

Kanji

蛾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
蛾
が
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蛾 ‎(nga, “moth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

蛾 ‎(hiragana が, romaji ga)

  1. moth

See also

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

蛾 • ‎(a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

  1. moth

Okinawan

Kanji

蛾 ‎(hiragana がー, romaji gaa)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蛾 ‎(ga).

Noun

蛾 ‎(hiragana がー, romaji gaa)

  1. moth

Vietnamese

Han character

蛾 (ngài, nga)

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