蜭

蜭 U 872D, 蜭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-872D ← 蜬 [U 872C] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜮 → [U 872E]

Translingual

Han character

蜭 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫 8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓竹難 (LINHX), four-corner 5717₇, composition ⿰虫臽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33174
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 5
• Unihan data for U 872D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蜭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàn (han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ham⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ham⁵
    • Yale: háhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ham⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hem⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐm¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: homX, homH

Rime
Character	蜭	蜭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	胡感切	胡紺切
Baxter	homX	homH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʌmX/	/ɦʌmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəmX/	/ɦəmH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɒmX/	/ɣɒmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəmX/	/ɦəmH/
Li Rong	/ɣᴀmX/	/ɣᴀmH/
Wang Li	/ɣɒmX/	/ɣɒmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣămX/	/ɣămH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham6	ham6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡloːmʔ/, /*ɡluːms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜭	蜭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13548	13549
Phonetic component	臽	臽
Rime group	談	侵
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	頷	憾
Old Chinese	/*ɡloːmʔ/	/*ɡluːms/

Definitions

蜭

1. ^† a venomous caterpillar which stings