蛶

蛶 U+86F6, 蛶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86F6 ← 蛵 [U+86F5] CJK Unified Ideographs 蛷 → [U+86F7]

Translingual

Han character

蛶 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月木戈 (LIBDI), four-corner 5214₃, composition ⿰虫寽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1083, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33066
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2857, character 2
• Unihan data for U+86F6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蛶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
酹	*roːds, *ruːls
脟	*ronʔ, *rod
捋	*roːd
蛶	*roːd, *rod
埒	*rod
鋝	*rod, *srod
浖	*rod
哷	*rod
寽	*rud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liè, jiè (lie⁴, jie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ, ㄐㄧㄝˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liè
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liè
    • Wade–Giles: lieh⁴
    • Yale: lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lieh
    • Palladius: ле (le)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiè
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴
    • Yale: jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lwat, ljwet

Rime
Character	蛶	蛶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	末 (64)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	郎活切	力輟切
Baxter	lwat	ljwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑt̚/	/liuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷɑt̚/	/lʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑt̚/	/ljuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwat̚/	/lwiat̚/
Li Rong	/luɑt̚/	/liuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/luɑt̚/	/lĭuɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luɑt̚/	/li̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luò	lüè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lyut6	lyut6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːd/, /*rod/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛶	蛶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8590	8593
Phonetic component	寽	寽
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime		劣
Old Chinese	/*roːd/	/*rod/

Definitions

蛶

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 螪蛶 (“a kind of insect”)