蜤

蜤 U+8724, 蜤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8724 ← 蜣 [U+8723] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜥 → [U+8725]

Translingual

Han character

蜤 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木中中一戈 (DLLMI), four-corner 4213₆, composition ⿱析虫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33156
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2860, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8724

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
菥	*se, *seːɡ
蜤	*se
析	*seːɡ
皙	*seːɡ
蜥	*seːɡ
淅	*seːɡ
惁	*seːɡ
晰	*seːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sih
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹
    • Yale: sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sje

Rime
Character	蜤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息移切
Baxter	sje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siə̆/
Li Rong	/sie/
Wang Li	/sǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*se/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜤
Reading #	1/1
No.	13315
Phonetic component	析
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	斯
Old Chinese	/*se/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

蜤

1. Only used in 蜤螽.