蝬

蝬 U+876C, 蝬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-876C ← 蝫 [U+876B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝭 → [U+876D]

Translingual

Han character

蝬 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈山金水 (LIUCE), four-corner 5214₇, composition ⿰虫㚇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1090, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33307
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2872, character 12
• Unihan data for U+876C

Chinese

trad.		蝬
simp. #		蝬

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
艐	*kʰaːls, *krɯːds, *kʰaːls, *ʔsoːŋ
堫	*sʰroːŋ, *ʔsoːŋ
葼	*ʔsoːŋ
鬷	*ʔsoːŋ, *ʔsoːŋʔ
嵕	*ʔsoːŋ
猣	*ʔsoːŋ, *ʔsoːŋʔ
鯼	*ʔsoːŋ, *ʔsoːŋs
椶	*ʔsoːŋ
騣	*ʔsoːŋ
蝬	*ʔsoːŋ
翪	*ʔsoːŋ, *ʔsoːŋʔ
緵	*ʔsoːŋ, *ʔsoːŋs
稯	*ʔsoːŋ
鬉	*ʔsoːŋ
糉	*ʔsoːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zōng (zong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zong
    • Wade–Giles: tsung¹
    • Yale: dzūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzong
    • Palladius: цзун (czun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsuwng

Rime
Character	蝬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	子紅切
Baxter	tsuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡suŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡suŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡suŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡suŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡suŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡suŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsoːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝬
Reading #	1/1
No.	18086
Phonetic component	翪
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葼
Old Chinese	/*ʔsoːŋ/

Definitions

蝬

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 三蝬 (“a kind of clam”)