蜢

蠯 U 8722, 蠯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8722 ← 蜡 [U 8721] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜣 → [U 8723]

Translingual

Han character

蜢 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫 8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓木廿 (LINDT), four-corner 5711₇, composition ⿰虫孟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33152
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2866, character 13
• Unihan data for U 8722

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
猛	*mraːŋʔ
艋	*mraːŋʔ
蜢	*mraːŋʔ
皿	*maŋʔ
孟	*mraːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měng (meng³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): máng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma³ / meng³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mé / béng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: měng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: měng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng³
    • Yale: měng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maang⁵
    • Yale: máahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: máng
    • Hakka Romanization System: mang^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mang³
    • Sinological IPA: /maŋ³¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma³³²/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ³³²/

Note:

• ma3 - vernacular;
• meng3 - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mé / béng
    • Tâi-lô: mé / béng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mea, beang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mẽ⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽ⁵⁵⁴/, /biɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mẽ⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ⁴¹/, /biɪŋ⁴¹/

Note:

• mé - vernacular;
• béng - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: maengX

Rime
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫幸切
Baxter	maengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋX/
Li Rong	/mɐŋX/
Wang Li	/mɐŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
No.	9150
Phonetic component	皿
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋʔ/
Notes	杏由幸校改

Definitions

蜢

1. Only used in 蚱蜢 (zhàměng), 草蜢 (cǎoměng) etc.

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蜢”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.