蚥

蚥 U+86A5, 蚥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86A5 ← 蚤 [U+86A4] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚦 → [U+86A6]

Translingual

Han character

蚥 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈金大 (LICK), four-corner 5814₀, composition ⿰虫父)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1078, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32895
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2839, character 6
• Unihan data for U+86A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
抪	*paː, *paːs
布	*paːs
佈	*paːs
怖	*pʰaːs
斧	*paʔ
父	*paʔ, *baʔ
蚥	*paʔ, *baʔ
滏	*baʔ
釜	*baʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *paʔ, *baʔ): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǔ, fù (fu³, fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˇ, ㄈㄨˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǔ
    • Wade–Giles: fu³
    • Yale: fǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuX, bjuX

Rime
Character	蚥	蚥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	方矩切	扶雨切
Baxter	pjuX	bjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨoX/	/bɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/pioX/	/bioX/
Shao Rongfen	/pioX/	/bioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puə̆X/	/buə̆X/
Li Rong	/pioX/	/bioX/
Wang Li	/pĭuX/	/bĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯uX/	/bʱi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǔ	fù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu2	fu6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*paʔ/, /*baʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚥	蚥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3501	3505
Phonetic component	父	父
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	甫	父
Old Chinese	/*paʔ/	/*baʔ/

Definitions

蚥

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) praying mantis
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of cicada