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U+8839, 蠹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8839

[U+8838]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+883A]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 142, +18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 40136, composition ⿳⿱𰀉)

  1. moth
  2. insects which eat into cloth

References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.
2nd round simp. 𫊥
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *taːɡs) : phonetic (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic (insect)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuoH/
Shao
Rongfen
/toH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɔH/
Li
Rong
/toH/
Wang
Li
/tuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dou3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁak-s/
English grubs in wood, vermin

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11456
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taːɡs/

Definitions

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  1. insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
    1. (specifically) silverfish
  2. (figuratively) harmful person; vermin
  3. to erode; to eat away at
  4. moth-eaten; worm-eaten

Synonyms

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  • (silverfish):
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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • On (unclassified): (to) (tsu)
  • Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)しみ (shimi)

Korean

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Hanja

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(du) (hangeul , revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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