蝡

蝡 U+8761, 蝡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8761 ← 蝠 [U+8760] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝢 → [U+8762]

Translingual

Han character

蝡 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈一月大 (LIMBK), four-corner 5113₄, composition ⿰虫耎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1090, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33290
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2869, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8761

Chinese

trad.		蝡/蠕*
simp.		蠕*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陾	*njɯ, *noːʔ
腝	*nuːs, *njonʔ, *nuːns
堧	*noːls, *njon
稬	*noːls, *noːnʔ, *noːns
愞	*noːls, *noːns, *njonʔ
煗	*noːnʔ
餪	*noːnʔ
渜	*noːnʔ, *noːns
偄	*noːns, *njonʔ
瑌	*njon, *njonʔ
軟	*njonʔ
輭	*njonʔ
蝡	*njonʔ, *njunʔ
碝	*njonʔ
耎	*njonʔ
緛	*njonʔ
媆	*nuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *njonʔ, *njunʔ): semantic 虫 + phonetic 耎 (OC *njonʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruǎn, rú (ruan³, ru²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄢˇ, ㄖㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ruǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ruǎn
    • Wade–Giles: juan³
    • Yale: rwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: roan
    • Palladius: жуань (žuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯än²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rú
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rú
    • Wade–Giles: ju²
    • Yale: rú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ru
    • Palladius: жу (žu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁵
    • Yale: yúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: nywenX, nywinX

Rime
Character	蝡	蝡
Reading #	2/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	而兖切	而允切
Baxter	nywenX	nywinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiuᴇnX/	/ȵiuɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵʷiɛnX/	/ȵʷinX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjuænX/	/ȵʑjuenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵwianX/	/ȵwinX/
Li Rong	/ȵiuɛnX/	/ȵiuĕnX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭwɛnX/	/ȵʑĭuĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯wɛnX/	/ȵʑi̯uĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ruǎn	rǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun5	jeon5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*njonʔ/, /*njunʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝡	蝡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10904	10914
Phonetic component	耎	耎
Rime group	元	文
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	輭	蝡
Old Chinese	/*njonʔ/	/*njunʔ/
Notes	集韻或作蠕	集韻或作蠕

Definitions

蝡

1. to wriggle; to squirm
2. wriggling; squirming

Japanese

Kanji

蝡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぜん (zen)、じゅ (ju)、ねん (nen)、にゅ (nyu)、だ (da)
• Kun: うごめく (ugomeku)