百足

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Chinese

hundred foot; to be sufficient
simp. and trad.
(百足)

Pronunciation


Noun

(deprecated template usage) 百足

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Pinghua) centipede
  2. (literary) millipede; diplopod

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)


Japanese

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百足 (mukade, hyakusoku): a centipede].

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 1
irregular

From Old Japanese, of unknown derivation; some theories include:

  1. a compound of 向かい (mukai, facing, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 向かう (mukau, to face)) +‎ (te, hand), as the centipede's feet come in facing pairs
  2. a compound of (mu, six) +‎ (ka, ten, unusual reading; compare the ga in 五十嵐 (igarashi)) +‎ (te, hand), literally "sixty hands"; centipedes have more or less than one hundred legs
  3. starting as a compound of (momo, hundred) +‎ (ga, ancient possessive particle) +‎ (te, hand), shifting phonetically: /momo ɡa te//mukade/

While the latter two theories seem plausible semantically, the devoicing of ga to ka is quite unusual.

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 百足 (bǎizú).

Pronunciation

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Alternative forms

Noun

百足(むかで) or 百足(ムカデ) (mukade (standard)
(alternative reading hiragana むかぜ, rōmaji mukaze) (Kagoshima dialect)

  1. a centipede
Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ムカデ.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
ひゃく
Grade: 1
そく
Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 百足 (MC paek tsjowk).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(ひゃく)(そく) (hyakusoku

  1. (rare) a centipede
Usage notes

The mukade reading is much more common.

See also

References


Further reading


Miyako

Alternative forms

Noun

百足 (hiragana んかじ, romaji nkaji)

  1. a centipede

Oki-No-Erabu

Alternative forms

Noun

百足 (hiragana むかじ, romaji mukaji)

  1. a centipede

Toku-No-Shima

Alternative forms

Noun

百足 (hiragana ぬかで, romaji nukade)

  1. a centipede