蚳

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)

1. ant eggs

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

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Chinese

trad.		蚳
simp. #		蚳

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chí (chi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴

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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/

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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

(deprecated template usage) 蚳

1. ant eggs
2. a surname

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

蚳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

蚳 (chỉ)

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