蠍

See also: 蝎

蠍 U+880D, 蠍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-880D ← 蠌 [U+880C] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠎 → [U+880E]

Translingual

Han character

蠍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日女人 (LIAVO), four-corner 5718₂, composition ⿰虫歇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33707
• Dae Jaweon: page 1564, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2896, character 18
• Unihan data for U+880D

Chinese

trad.		蠍/蝎*
simp.		蝎*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰad) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 歇 (OC *qʰad).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xiē (xie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xie²

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ще (xi͡ə, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kit³, hit³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): giad⁵
• Jin (Wiktionary): xieh⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): kiék
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): giat
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷shiq
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): sie⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sie
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh¹
    • Yale: syē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shie
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xie²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xie
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiɛ²¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ще (xi͡ə, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiə²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kit³, hit³
    • Yale: kit, hit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kit⁸, hit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kid³, hid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiːt̚³/, /hiːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: giad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /kiat̚¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: xieh⁴
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɕiəʔ²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kiék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiɛʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: giat
    • Tâi-lô: giat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡiɛt̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷shiq
    • MiniDict: shih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴xiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɪʔ⁵⁵/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: sie⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /si̯e̞²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /ɕi̯e̞²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xjot

Rime
Character	蠍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	元 (67)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許謁切
Baxter	xjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨat̚/
Li Rong	/xiɐt̚/
Wang Li	/xĭɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɨ̯ɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hit3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰad/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠍
Reading #	1/1
No.	5065
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qʰad/

Definitions

蠍

1. scorpion

   蠍子／蝎子  ―  xiēzi  ―  scorpion

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蠍子 (“scorpion”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蠍子
Mandarin	Taiwan	蠍子
	Harbin	蠍子
	Yantai (Muping)	蠍子
	Jinan	蠍子
	Wanrong	蠍子
	Xi'an	蠍子
	Yinchuan	蠍子
	Xining	蠍子
	Ürümqi	蠍子
	Chengdu	蠍子
	Liuzhou	蠍子
	Yangzhou	蠍子
	Nanjing	蠍子
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	蠍子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	蠍子
	Dongguan	蠍子
Gan	Lichuan	蠍子
Hakka	Meixian	蠍
Jin	Taiyuan	蠍子
	Xinzhou	蠍子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蠍
Southern Min	Xiamen	蠍仔
	Tainan	蠍仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	象夾
	Leizhou	翹尾蟻
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	蠍子
Wu	Shanghai	蠍子
	Danyang	蠍子
	Hangzhou	蠍子
	Wenzhou	蠍
	Jinhua	蠍子
Xiang	Changsha	蠍子

Compounds

• 剔蠍撩蜂／剔蝎撩蜂
• 天蠍座／天蝎座 (Tiānxiēzuò)
• 火蠍子／火蝎子
• 蛇蠍／蛇蝎 (shéxiē)
• 蛇蠍心腸／蛇蝎心肠 (shéxiēxīncháng)
• 蛇蠍美人／蛇蝎美人 (shéxiē měirén)
• 蠍子／蝎子 (xiēzi)
• 蠍虎／蝎虎 (xiēhǔ)
• 蠍蠍螫螫／蝎蝎螫螫
• 雙尾蠍／双尾蝎

 

References

• “蠍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

蠍(sasori)

Kanji

蠍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. scorpion

Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
• Kan’yō-on: かつ (katsu)
• Kun: さそり (sasori, 蠍)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蠍座(さそりざ) (Sasoriza): Scorpius
• 蠍擬(さそりもどき) (sasorimodoki)
• 蛇蠍(だかつ) (dakatsu), 蛇蠍(じゃかつ) (jakatsu)
• 天蠍宮(てんかつきゅう) (Tenkatsukyū): Scorpio

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蠍
さそり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
蝎

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さそり [sàsórí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sa̠so̞ɾʲi]

Noun

蠍(さそり) or 蠍(サソリ) • (sasori) 

1. a scorpion (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones)

Korean

Hanja

蠍 • (gal) (hangeul 갈)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠍: Hán Nôm readings: hiết, hạt, yết

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