蠵

蠵 U+8835, 蠵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8835 ← 蠴 [U+8834] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠶 → [U+8836]

Translingual

Han character

蠵 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 中戈山人月 (LIUOB), four-corner 5212₇, composition ⿰虫巂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1103, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33887
• Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8835

Chinese

trad.		蠵
simp. #		蠵
alternative forms		𧓬 𩽨

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
孈	*ɢʷeʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *qʰʷes, *ɢʷiʔ
纗	*ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː, *sqʷe, *ɢʷes
攜	*ɡʷeː
蠵	*ɡʷeː, *ɢʷe
鑴	*ɡʷeː, *qʰʷe
驨	*ɡʷeː
酅	*ɡʷeː
雟	*ɡʷeː
讗	*ɡʷeː, *kʷreːɡ
觽	*ɡʷeː
儶	*ɡʷeːs
觿	*qʰʷe
欈	*ɢʷe
瓗	*ɢʷes
携	*ɡʷleː

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwai⁴
    • Yale: kwàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: he²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: há̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /he¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: he²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /he²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: ywe, hwej

Rime
Character	蠵	蠵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	支 (12)	齊 (40)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	悅吹切	戸圭切
Baxter	ywe	hwej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuᴇ/	/ɦwei/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiɛ/	/ɦʷei/
Shao Rongfen	/juɛ/	/ɣuɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwiə̆/	/ɦwɛj/
Li Rong	/iue/	/ɣuei/
Wang Li	/jǐwe/	/ɣiwei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/wie̯/	/ɣiwei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wéi	huí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai4	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeː/, /*ɢʷe/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠵	蠵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4621	4634
Phonetic component	巂	巂
Rime group	支	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	攜	䔺
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeː/	/*ɢʷe/

Definitions

蠵

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of large sea turtle

Compounds

• 蟕蠵
• 蠵龜 / 蠵龟 (xīguī)
• 觜蠵
• 靈蠵 / 灵蠵

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蠵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

蠵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、え (e)、い (i)