蝀

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 東 (“east”)

Han character

蝀 (radical 142 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈木田 (LIDW), four-corner 5519₆)

1. rainbow

References

• KangXi: page 1088, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33213
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2860, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8740

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蝀 (Yale dung3)

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Japanese

Kanji

蝀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: とう (tō), つ (tsu)

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Korean

Hanja

蝀 (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蝀 (Pinyin dōng (dong1), dòng (dong4), Wade-Giles tung¹, tung⁴)

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