蚤

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 虫 (“insect”) + 㕚 (“claw”) – a scratching insect/pest.

Han character

蚤 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中一戈 (EILMI), four-corner 1713₆)

1. flea
2. louse

Derived characters

• 搔 (掻)

References

• KangXi: page 1078, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1547, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2836, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86A4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蚤 (Yale jou2)

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Japanese

Kanji

蚤

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: のみ (nomi), はやい (hayai)

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Korean

Hanja

蚤 (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蚤 (pinyin zǎo (zao3), zhǎo (zhao3), Wade-Giles tsao³, chao³)