蜞

蜞 U+871E, 蜞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-871E ← 蜝 [U+871D] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜟 → [U+871F]

Translingual

Han character

蜞 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿一金 (LITMC), four-corner 5418₁, composition ⿰虫其)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33145
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2859, character 7
• Unihan data for U+871E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
期	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅	*kɯ, *ɡɯs
其	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆	*kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	*ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡɯ): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khî
    • Tâi-lô: khî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜞
Reading #	1/1
No.	9957
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/
Notes	作蜝正體

Definitions

蜞

1. used in 蟛蜞 (péngqí)
2. leech

Compounds

• 毛蜞
• 湖蜞
• 胡蜞
• 蜈蜞 (ngô͘-khî) (Hokkien)
• 蟛蜞 (péngqí)

Japanese

Kanji

蜞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)、ぎ (gi)
• Kun: ひる (hiru)