螫

螫 U+87AB, 螫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87AB ← 螪 [U+87AA] CJK Unified Ideographs 螬 → [U+87AC]

Translingual

Han character

螫 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土大中一戈 (GKLMI), four-corner 4813₆, composition ⿱赦虫)

1. poison
2. sting
3. poisonous insect

Derived characters

• 𭌤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1094, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33491
• Dae Jaweon: page 1559, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2882, character 15
• Unihan data for U+87AB

Chinese

trad.		螫
simp. #		螫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
浾	*sqraː
嚇	*qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
赦	*hljaɡs
郝	*qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
赫	*qʰraːɡ
爀	*qʰraːɡ
赤	*kʰljaɡ
烾	*kʰljaɡ
螫	*qʰjaːɡ
赥	*qʰleːɡ
捇	*qʰʷreːɡ
焃	*qʰʷreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰjaːɡ): phonetic 赦 (OC *hljaɡs) + semantic 虫 (“bug”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì, zhē (shi⁴, zhe¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ, ㄓㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹ / cik¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhioh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴
    • Yale: shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhē
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhe
    • Wade–Giles: chê¹
    • Yale: jē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: je
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹ / cik¹
    • Yale: sīk / chīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷ / tsik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹ / qig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/, /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhioh
    • Tâi-lô: tshioh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chioiq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰioʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɤʔ³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sʰioʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: syek

Rime
Character	螫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	施隻切
Baxter	syek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiajk̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭɛk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]Ak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰjaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ syek ›
Old Chinese	/*[l̥]Ak/
English	sting (v.)
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	螫
Reading #	1/1
No.	1481
Phonetic component	赤
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	釋
Old Chinese	/*qʰjaːɡ/

Definitions

螫

1. (literary or Hokkien) to sting; to bite (of venomous insects such as spiders, bees, etc.)
2. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to use one's beak to bite or tug (of ducks, geese, etc.)

Compounds

• 撩蜂吃螫
• 蝎蝎螫螫
• 螫傷 / 螫伤
• 螫蠅 / 螫蝇
• 蠍蠍螫螫 / 蝎蝎螫螫
• 辛螫

References

• “螫”, 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

螫

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せき (seki)、かく (kaku)
• Kun: さす (sasu)