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蛾
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See also: 䖸
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Translingual
Han character
蛾 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹手戈 (LIHQI), four-corner 53150, composition ⿰虫我)
Derived characters
- 𠏃
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1083, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33082
- Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2856, character 6
- Unihan data for U+86FE
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngò
- Jin (Wiktionary): ghe1
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: é
- Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: é
- Wade–Giles: o2
- Yale: é
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
- Palladius: э (e)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: ngo4
- Yale: ngòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngo4
- Guangdong Romanization: ngo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngò
- Hakka Romanization System: ngoˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngo2
- Sinological IPA: /ŋo¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: ghe1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɣɤ¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘
- Tâi-lô: ngôo
- Phofsit Daibuun: ngoo
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ̃²³/
- IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
- Tâi-lô: ia̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: iah
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iaʔ⁴/
Note: ia̍h - 蝶 is used in the Mainland.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ngo5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋo⁵⁵/
- (Teochew)
- Middle Chinese: nga
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤaj/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːl/
Definitions
蛾
- moth (insect of the order Lepidoptera)
- 秋八月,有白蛾群飛蔽日,從東都門至枳道。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
- From: The Book of Han, circa 1st century CE
- Qiū bāyuè, yǒu bái é qúnfēi bìrì, cóng dōng dōu mén zhì zhǐdào. [Pinyin]
- In the eighth month of autumn, a swarm of white moths obscured the sun from the eastern capital gate up to Orange Road.
秋八月,有白蛾群飞蔽日,从东都门至枳道。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]- 悄悄月侵牖,蕭蕭風振柯。關心十年事,坐數撲燈蛾。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
- From: 《石州集/석주집》, 1631
- Chocho wol chim yu, soso pung jin ga. Gwansim sip nyeon sa, jwa su bak deung a. [Sino-Korean]
- The silent moonlight seeps through the window,
The desolate wind tilts at the branches.
My mind entangled in the past ten years,
I sit and count the moths hitting the lamp.
- short for 蛾眉 (éméi)
- a surname
Synonyms
- (moth):
Compounds
- 卷葉蛾 / 卷叶蛾 (juǎnyè'é)
- 夜蛾 (yè'é)
- 天蛾 (tiān'é)
- 天蠶蛾 / 天蚕蛾
- 尺蠖蛾
- 巴蛾
- 撲燈蛾 / 扑灯蛾
- 斜紋夜蛾 / 斜纹夜蛾
- 月形天蠶蛾 / 月形天蚕蛾 (yuèxíng tiāncán'é)
- 海蛾魚 / 海蛾鱼
- 淡掃蛾眉 / 淡扫蛾眉
- 煙夜蛾 / 烟夜蛾
- 燈蛾 / 灯蛾
- 燈蛾撲火 / 灯蛾扑火
- 畫黛彎蛾 / 画黛弯蛾 (huàdàiwān'é)
- 皓齒蛾眉 / 皓齿蛾眉
- 紅粉青蛾 / 红粉青蛾
- 綠慘雙蛾 / 绿惨双蛾
- 羽蛾 (yǔ'é)
- 自然蛾眉
- 蛾妝 / 蛾妆
- 蛾子 (ézi)
- 蛾眉 (éméi)
- 蛾眉月 (éméiyuè)
- 蛾眉班
- 蛾眉皓齒 / 蛾眉皓齿
- 蛾眉螓首
- 蛾眉豆
- 蛾綠 / 蛾绿 (élǜ)
- 螢蛾 / 萤蛾
- 螟蛾 (míng'é)
- 螓首蛾眉
- 蠶蛾 / 蚕蛾 (cán'é)
- 衣蛾
- 雙蛾 / 双蛾
- 顰蛾眉 / 颦蛾眉
- 飛蛾 / 飞蛾 (fēi'é)
- 飛蛾投火 / 飞蛾投火
- 飛蛾投焰 / 飞蛾投焰
- 飛蛾撲火 / 飞蛾扑火 (fēi'épūhuǒ)
- 飛蛾赴火 / 飞蛾赴火
- 飛蛾赴焰 / 飞蛾赴焰
- 飛蛾赴燭 / 飞蛾赴烛
- 鳳蛾 / 凤蛾 (fèngé)
- 黛蛾
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 蛾 – see 蟻 (“ant; foam or sediment in wine; lees; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蟻). |
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