螽

螽 U+87BD, 螽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BD ← 螼 [U+87BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 螾 → [U+87BE]

Translingual

Han character

螽 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹水卜中戈 (HEYLI) or 竹卜中戈 (HYLI), four-corner 2713₆, composition ⿱冬䖵)

1. grasshopper, katydid

Derived characters

• 𢥕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33519
• Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2886, character 16
• Unihan data for U+87BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		螽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
疼	*dɯːŋ, *duːŋ
冬	*tuːŋ
苳	*tuːŋ
笗	*tuːŋ
炵	*tʰuːŋ, *duːŋ
佟	*duːŋ
鼕	*duːŋ
鉖	*duːŋ
終	*tjuŋ
螽	*tjuŋ
鼨	*tjuŋ
柊	*tjuŋ
鴤	*tjuŋ
泈	*tjuŋ
蔠	*tjuŋ

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) proposes Sino-Tibetan origin; he reconstructs 螽 (OC *C-juŋ) (though with uncertainty) and compares it to Burmese ကျိုင် (kyuing, “locust”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong
    • Tâi-lô: tsiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng

Rime
Character	螽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職戎切
Baxter	tsyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/
English	tsyuwng.sje locust
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	螽
Reading #	1/1
No.	2429
Phonetic component	冬
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	終
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/

Definitions

螽

1. locust

   • 秋，雨螽于宋，隊而死也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     秋，雨螽于宋，队而死也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Qiū, yù zhōng yú Sòng, zhuì ér sǐ yě. [Pinyin]

     Autumn, it rained locusts in Song; they fell down and then died.

Compounds

• 草螽
• 蛗螽
• 螽斯 (zhōngsī)
• 螽斯之徵／螽斯之征
• 螽斯之慶／螽斯之庆
• 蟿螽
• 阜螽

 

Japanese

Kanji

螽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: いなご (inago)

Korean

Hanja

螽 • (jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune–Reischauer chong, Yale cong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螽: Hán Nôm readings: chung

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References

• Nom Foundation