蝤

蝤 U+8764, 蝤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8764 ← 蝣 [U+8763] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝥 → [U+8765]

Translingual

Han character

蝤 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿金田 (LITCW), four-corner 5816₁, composition ⿰虫酋)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1090, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33293
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2873, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8764

Chinese

trad.		蝤
simp. #		蝤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
楢	*kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎	*ʔslu
遒	*sklu, *sɡlu
蝤	*sklu, *sɡlu
揂	*sklu
酒	*ʔsluʔ
媨	*sklus
鞧	*skʰlu
緧	*skʰlu
趥	*skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋	*sɡlu
崷	*sɡlu
鰌	*sɡlu
煪	*sɡlu
醜	*l̥ʰjuʔ
猶	*klus, *lu, *lus
猷	*lu
輶	*lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤	*lu
莤	*lu, *sruɡ
蕕	*lu
庮	*lu, *luʔ
槱	*luʔ, *lus
梄	*luʔ
丣	*luʔ
酉	*luʔ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
    • Yale: chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cau⁴
    • Yale: chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzjuw

Rime
Character	蝤
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	自秋切
Baxter	dzjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziu/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ziəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zuw/
Li Rong	/d͡ziu/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɡlu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]u/
English	蝤蠐 tree-grub
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝤
Reading #	2/2
No.	15561
Phonetic component	酉
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	酋
Old Chinese	/*sɡlu/

Definitions

蝤

1. only used in 蝤蠐／蝤蛴 (qiúqí)

Compounds

• 蝤蠐 / 蝤蛴 (qiúqí)
• 蝤蠐領 / 蝤蛴领
• 領如蝤蠐 / 领如蝤蛴

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū, yóu (jiu¹, you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ, ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴ / zau¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): iu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiou
    • Wade–Giles: chiu¹
    • Yale: jyōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • Palladius: цзю (czju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóu
    • Wade–Giles: yu²
    • Yale: yóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • Palladius: ю (ju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jau⁴ / zau¹
    • Yale: yàuh / jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴ / dzau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴ / zeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/, /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iu²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: iú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjuw

Rime
Character	蝤
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即由切
Baxter	tsjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suw/
Li Rong	/t͡siu/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sklu/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝤
Reading #	1/2
No.	15552
Phonetic component	酉
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遒
Old Chinese	/*sklu/

Definitions

蝤

1. only used in 蝤蛑 (yóumóu)

Compounds

• 蝤蛑

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝤 – see 蝣 (“mayfly”). (This character is a variant form of 蝣).

References

• “蝤”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蝤”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.

Japanese

Kanji

蝤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)、じゅ (ju)、よう (yō)、よ (yo)
• Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)

Korean

Hanja

蝤 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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