蠹
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Translingual
[edit]Han character
[edit]蠹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 40136, composition ⿳⿱𰀉冖石䖵)
- moth
- insects which eat into cloth
References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896
- Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8839
Chinese
[edit]simp. and trad. |
蠹 | |
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2nd round simp. | 𫊥 | |
alternative forms | 蠧 |
Glyph origin
[edit]Historical forms of the character 蠹 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *taːɡs) : phonetic 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic 䖵 (“insect”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dù
- Wade–Giles: tu4
- Yale: dù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh
- Palladius: ду (du)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: dou3
- Yale: dou
- Cantonese Pinyin: dou3
- Guangdong Romanization: dou3
- Sinological IPA (key): /tou̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: tuH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤak-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*taːɡs/
Definitions
[edit]蠹
- insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
- (specifically) silverfish
- (figuratively) harmful person; vermin
- to erode; to eat away at
- moth-eaten; worm-eaten
Synonyms
[edit]- (silverfish):
Compounds
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Kanji
[edit]蠹
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Readings
[edit]Korean
[edit]Hanja
[edit]蠹 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)
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