蝀

蝀 U+8740, 蝀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8740 ← 蜿 [U+873F] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝁 → [U+8741]

Translingual

Han character

蝀 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈木田 (LIDW), four-corner 5519₆, composition ⿰虫東)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1088, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33213
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2860, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8740

Chinese

trad.		蝀
simp.		𬟽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
東	*toːŋ
菄	*toːŋ
鶇	*toːŋ
倲	*toːŋ
涷	*toːŋ, *toːŋs
蝀	*toːŋ, *toːŋʔ
凍	*toːŋ, *toːŋs
鯟	*toːŋ
崠	*toːŋ
埬	*toːŋ
棟	*toːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *toːŋ, *toːŋʔ): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ).

Etymology

Cognate with 虹 (OC *kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ). See there for more. Also cognate with Nusu thoŋ³¹ gɹi⁵⁵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dōng, dòng (dong¹, dong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥ, ㄉㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung¹ / dung² / dung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dong
    • Wade–Giles: tung¹
    • Yale: dūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dong
    • Palladius: дун (dun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòng
    • Wade–Giles: tung⁴
    • Yale: dùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donq
    • Palladius: дун (dun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dung¹ / dung² / dung³
    • Yale: dūng / dúng / dung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung¹ / dung² / dung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung¹ / dung² / dung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵/, /tʊŋ³⁵/, /tʊŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tuwng, tuwngX

Rime
Character	蝀	蝀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	德紅切	多動切
Baxter	tuwng	tuwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təwŋ/	/təwŋX/
Li Rong	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Wang Li	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tuŋ/	/tuŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dōng	dǒng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dung1	dung2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːŋ/, /*toːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝀	蝀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2440	2445
Phonetic component	東	東
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	東	董
Old Chinese	/*toːŋ/	/*toːŋʔ/

Definitions

蝀

1. only used in 螮蝀／䗖𬟽 (dìdōng, “rainbow”); also used as its short form

Compounds

• 玉蝀 / 玉𬟽
• 虹蝀 / 虹𬟽
• 螮蝀 / 䗖𬟽 (dìdōng)
• 金鰲玉蝀 / 金鳌玉𬟽

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04287
• “蝀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 蝀

蝀

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rainbow

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、つ (tsu)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蝀 (MC tuwng|tuwngX). Recorded as Middle Korean 도ᇰ〯 (twǒng) (Yale: twong) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

蝀

蝀 (eumhun 무지개 동 (mujigae dong))

1. hanja form^? of 동 (“rainbow”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.