蛛蝥

Chinese

		spider	Spanish fly; grain-eating grub
simp. and trad. (蛛蝥)		蛛	蝥
alternative forms		鼄蝥／𬹣蝥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhūwú, zhūmáo

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ ㄨˊ, ㄓㄨ ㄇㄠˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhūwú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ ㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuwú
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹-wu²
    • Yale: jū-wú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juwu
    • Palladius: чжуу (čžuu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ u³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhūmáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ ㄇㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhumáo
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹-mao²
    • Yale: jū-máu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jumau
    • Palladius: чжумао (čžumao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ mɑʊ̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trju mju

Rime
Character	蛛	蝥
Reading #	1/1	1/4
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	陟輸切	武夫切
Baxter	trju	mju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨo/	/mɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈio/	/mio/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶio/	/mio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuə̆/	/muə̆/
Li Rong	/ȶio/	/mio/
Wang Li	/ȶĭu/	/mĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯u/	/mi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhū	wú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu1	mou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*to  mo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蛛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhū
Middle Chinese	‹ trju ›
Old Chinese	/*tro/
English	*tre-tro spider
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	蛛	蝥
Reading #	1/1	3/4
No.	17564	8847
Phonetic component	朱	矛
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	株	無
Old Chinese	/*to/	/*mo/
Notes	說文同鼄	見爾雅

Noun

蛛蝥

1. (obsolete) Synonym of 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū, “spider”)