蚔

Translingual

Han character

蚔 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹女心 (LIHVP), four-corner 5214₀, composition ⿰虫氏)

1. ant eggs

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32867
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2840, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8694

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
氏	*skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹	*kje, *ɡe
紙	*kjeʔ
帋	*kjeʔ
扺	*kjeʔ
坁	*kjeʔ
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil
忯	*ɡje, *ɡe
眂	*ɡje, *ɡils
舐	*ɦljeʔ
芪	*ɡe
祇	*ɡe
疧	*ɡe
軝	*ɡe
蚔	*ɡe

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴ / zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴ / zi⁶
    • Yale: kèih / jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴ / dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴ / ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/, /t͡siː²²/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚔
Reading #	1/1
No.	11531
Phonetic component	氏
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蚔

1. ^† a venomous scorpion
2. ^† a kind of insect

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C12225
• “蚔”, 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–