蝥

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

蝥 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓大中一戈 (NKLMI), four-corner 1813₆)

1. Chinese blister beetle
2. a fly which is used similarly to cantharides

References

• KangXi: page 1090, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2875, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8765

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蝥 (Yale maau4)

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Japanese

Kanji

蝥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fly which is used similarly to cantharides

Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), む (mu), めう (meu), ぶ (bu)

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Korean

Hanja

蝥 (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

1. cantharides

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蝥 (Pinyin máo (mao2), móu (mou2), wú (wu2), wù (wu4), Wade-Giles mao², mou², wu², wu⁴)

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