蚊

See also: 螡

Translingual

Han character

蚊 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜大 (LIYK), four-corner 5014₀, composition ⿰虫文)

1. mosquito
2. gnat

References

• KangXi: page 1077, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32849
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2840, character 8
• Unihan data for U+868A

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		蚊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wén (wen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man¹, man⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): báng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wén
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: wên²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wen
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: man¹, man⁴
    • Yale: mān, màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man¹, man⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐn⁵⁵/, /mɐn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: báng
    • Tâi-lô: báng
    • IPA (Taipei): /baŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /baŋ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蚊, reconstructed)
Character (蚊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 文 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 無分切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨun/	/mi̯uən/	/miuən/	/miun/	/mun/	/mĭuən/	/miuən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蚊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蚊								wén								‹ mjun ›								/*C.mə[r]/								mosquito
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
蚊					13017					文					文					1					文					/*mɯn/					說文俗同蟁

Compounds

• 蚊子 mosquito

Definitions

蚊

1. dollar (Hong Kong or other); yuan
2. mosquito

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Japanese

Kanji

蚊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mosquito

Readings

• Goon: もん (mon)
• Kan’on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: か (ka)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term

蚊

か Grade: S

kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) か [kà] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠]

• Audio

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Noun

蚊 (hiragana か, romaji ka)

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 161)

     蚊蟻 上可 下音疑 訓安利乃古

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

蚊

かあ Grade: S

Irregular

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ː]

Noun

蚊 (hiragana かあ, romaji kā)

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 104)

     蚊蝄䖟蜺 [...] 上二字加安下二字阿牟

   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 3 (back))

     蚊 加阿

References

• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.
• 1979 [1079], Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3099-7:

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Korean

Hanja

蚊 (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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• ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9