蛸

Translingual

Han character

蛸 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火月 (LIFB), four-corner 5912₇)

1. long legged spider
2. octopus
3. chrysalis of mantis

References

• KangXi: page 1083, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33072
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2855, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86F8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蛸 (Yale saau1, siu1)

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Japanese

Pronunciation

• Homophones: 凧, 胼胝

Noun

蛸 (hiragana たこ, romaji tako)

1. an octopus

Alternative forms

• タコ

• 章魚

Kanji

蛸

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: たこ (tako)

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Korean

Hanja

蛸 (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蛸 (pinyin shāo (shao1), Wade-Giles shao¹)