蚼

蚼 U+86BC, 蚼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86BC ← 蚻 [U+86BB] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚽 → [U+86BD]

Translingual

Han character

蚼 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心口 (LIPR), four-corner 5712₀, composition ⿰虫句)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32933
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2844, character 12
• Unihan data for U+86BC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚼

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰoːʔ, *ɡo) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 句 (OC *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǒu (gou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǒu
    • Wade–Giles: kou³
    • Yale: gǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goou
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gau²
    • Yale: gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵/

Definitions

蚼

1. Used in 蚼犬.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qú (qu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü²
    • Yale: chyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi⁴
    • Yale: kèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gju, xuwX

Rime
Character	蚼	蚼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	其俱切	呼后切
Baxter	gju	xuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨo/	/həuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡio/	/həuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡio/	/xəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guə̆/	/həwX/
Li Rong	/ɡio/	/xuX/
Wang Li	/ɡĭu/	/xəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯u/	/xə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qú	hǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	keoi4	hau2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤ(r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡo/, /*qʰoːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蚼
Reading #	1/1
Middle Chinese	‹ xuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁ(r)oʔ/
English	ant (Sagart & Ma, 2020)
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	蚼	蚼
Reading #	2/2	1/2
No.	7117	7087
Phonetic component	句	句
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	衢	吼
Old Chinese	/*ɡo/	/*qʰoːʔ/

Definitions

蚼

1. Used in 玄蚼.