蝦

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trad.		蝦
simp.		虾

Translingual

Han character

蝦 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口尸水 (LIRSE), four-corner 5714₇)

See also

• 虾
• 鰕

References

• KangXi: page 1090, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33299
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2874, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8766

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Chinese

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trad.		蝦
simp.		虾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiā (xia¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haa⁴, haa¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): hà
• Min Nan (POJ): hê
• Wu (WT Romanisation): ho (T1); hoe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: hsia¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shia
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯a̠⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: haa⁴, haa¹
    • Yale: hàh, hā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haa⁴, haa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hɑː²¹/, /hɑː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hà
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ha¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hê
    • Tâi-lô: hê
    • IPA (Taipei): /he²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /he¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: ho (T1); hoe (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /ho⁵³/, /hø⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蝦, reconstructed)
Character (蝦), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡加切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɣa/	/ɣa/	/ɣa/	/ɦɯa/	/ɦaɨ/	/ɣa/	/ɣa/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蝦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蝦								há								‹ hæ ›								/*[ɡ]ˤra/								hæ-mæ frog
蝦								xiā								‹ hæ ›								/*[ɡ]ˤra/								shrimp
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
蝦					5962					叚					魚					0										/*qʰraː/					見楚辭九懷
蝦					5968					叚					魚					0					遐					/*ɡraː/

Definitions

蝦

1. shrimp, prawn; lobster

   毛蝦 / 毛虾  ―  máoxiā  ―  shrimp

   明蝦 / 明虾  ―  míngxiā  ―  prawn

   龍蝦 / 龙虾  ―  lóngxiā  ―  lobster

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Japanese

Kanji

蝦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. lobster, shrimp, prawn

Readings

• Goon: げ (ge)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: えび (ebi)

Compounds

• 蝦夷 (えみし, emishi; えみす, emisu; えびす, ebisu; えぞ, ezo)

Noun

蝦 (hiragana えび, katakana エビ, romaji ebi)

1. lobster, shrimp, prawn

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Korean

Hanja

蝦 (ha) (hangeul 하, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝦 (hà)

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