蛀

Translingual

Han character

蛀 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜土 (LIYG), four-corner 5011₄, composition ⿰虫主)

1. insects that eat books, clothes

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1080, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32947
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2845, character 2
• Unihan data for U+86C0

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蛀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chù / chiù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
    • Wade–Giles: chu⁴
    • Yale: jù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyu³
    • Yale: jyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chù
    • Tâi-lô: tsù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zux
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiù
    • Tâi-lô: tsiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siu¹¹/

Note:

• chù - literary;
• chiù - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuH

Rime
Character	蛀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之戍切
Baxter	tsyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛀
Reading #	1/1
No.	17627
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	注
Old Chinese	/*tjos/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蛀

1. moth or any other insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
2. (Southern Min) to bite (said of insects that eat books, clothes, or wood)

Synonyms

• (moth): 蠹 (dù)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

蛀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)
• Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)

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Korean

Hanja

蛀 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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