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, composition ⿱㕚虫)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		蚤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǎo, zhǎo (zao³, zhao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˇ, ㄓㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tsao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzao
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jao
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou²
    • Yale: jóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蚤, reconstructed)
Character (蚤), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 豪 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 子晧切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sɑuX/	/t͡sɑuX/	/t͡sɑuX/	/t͡sɑuX/	/t͡sawX/	/t͡sɑuX/	/t͡sɑuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蚤, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蚤								zǎo								‹ tsawX ›								/*tsˤuʔ/								flea
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
蚤					16552					蚤					幽					1					早					/*ʔsuːʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

蚤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: そう (sō)
• Kan’on: そう (sō)
• Kun: のみ (nomi), はやい (hayai) (rare)

Etymology

Wikipedia ^ja Wikipedia

蚤 (nomi): an illustration of a flea.

Kanji in this term

蚤

のみ Hyōgaiji

kun'yomi

Possibly derived from 飲み (nomi), the nominalized 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 飲む (nomu, “to drink”), from the way that fleas drink the host's blood.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) のみ​ [nòmíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [no̞mi]

Noun

蚤 (hiragana のみ, katakana ノミ, romaji nomi)

1. flea

Derived terms

Derived terms

蚤 (のみ)の市 (いち) (nomi no ichi): a flea market

Idioms

Idioms

蚤 (のみ)が茶臼 (ちゃうす) (nomi ga chausu): “[like] a flea [carrying] a tea mortar” → a metaphor for an unreasonable or infeasible hope

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Okinawan

Kanji

蚤 (hiragana ぬみ, romaji numi)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 蚤 (nomi).

Noun

蚤 (hiragana ぬみ, romaji numi)

1. flea

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Vietnamese

Han character

蚤 (tao)

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