蚳

蚳 U+86B3, 蚳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86B3 ← 蚲 [U+86B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚴 → [U+86B4]

Translingual

Han character

蚳 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹心一 (LIHPM), four-corner 5214₀, composition ⿰虫氐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32922
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2844, character 10
• Unihan data for U+86B3

Chinese

trad.		蚳
simp. #		蚳
alternative forms		𧋗 𧏔 𨑉 𧏁 𧐏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蚳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Shizhoupian script	Ancient script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
低	*tiːl
氐	*tiːl, *til
袛	*tiːl
羝	*tiːl
眡	*tiːl, *djilʔ
岻	*tiːl, *dil
奃	*tiːl
趆	*tiːl, *tiːls
柢	*tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls
邸	*tiːlʔ
底	*tiːlʔ
詆	*tiːlʔ, *diːl
坻	*tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil
抵	*tiːlʔ
牴	*tiːlʔ
觝	*tiːlʔ
弤	*tiːlʔ
軧	*tiːlʔ
骶	*tiːls
砥	*tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils
胝	*til
疷	*til
秪	*til
泜	*dil
蚳	*dil
彽	*dil
阺	*dil
貾	*dil
祗	*tjil
厎	*tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ
茋	*tjilʔ
鴟	*tʰjil
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dil) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əy (“egg; testicle”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chí (chi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): dì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chíh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih²
    • Yale: chŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyr
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: drij

Rime
Character	蚳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直尼切
Baxter	drij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖji/
Li Rong	/ȡji/
Wang Li	/ȡi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]r[ij]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*dil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蚳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ drij ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]r[ij]/
English	ant egg
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	蚳
Reading #	1/1
No.	2265
Phonetic component	氐
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	墀
Old Chinese	/*dil/

Definitions

蚳

1. ^† ant eggs
2. a surname

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04244

Japanese

Kanji

蚳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ち (chi); じ (ji); し (shi); てい (tei); たい (tai)

Vietnamese

Han character

蚳: Hán Việt readings: chỉ, trì
蚳: Nôm readings: đỉa

1. chữ Hán form of chỉ (“ant eggs”).
2. chữ Hán form of trì (“ant or silkworm eggs”).
3. chữ Hán form of Chỉ (“a surname”).
4. Nôm form of đỉa (“leech”).