蛸

Translingual

Han character

蛸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火月 (LIFB), four-corner 5912₇, composition ⿰虫肖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1083, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33072
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86F8

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Chinese

trad.		蛸
simp. #		蛸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蛸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjew

Rime
Character	蛸
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相邀切
Baxter	sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛸
Reading #	2/2
No.	13746
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*sew/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蛸

1. Used in 螵蛸 (piāoxiāo, “ootheca of a mantis”).
2. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāo (shao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shao
    • Wade–Giles: shao¹
    • Yale: shāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saau¹
    • Yale: sāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sraew

Rime
Character	蛸
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所交切
Baxter	sraew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨw/
Li Rong	/ʃau/
Wang Li	/ʃau/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛸
Reading #	1/2
No.	13715
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	梢
Old Chinese	/*sreːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蛸

1. Only used in 蠨蛸／蟏蛸 (xiāoshāo, “long-jawed spider (Tetragnathidae)”).

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāo, xiāo (shao¹, xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ, ㄒㄧㄠ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shao
    • Wade–Giles: shao¹
    • Yale: shāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
    • Palladius: шао (šao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蛸

1. octopus

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(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

蛸(tako)

Kanji

蛸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. octopus

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}; そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: たこ (tako, 蛸)

Compounds

Compounds

• 飯蛸(いいだこ) (īdako)
• 螵蛸(おおじがふぐり) (ōjigafuguri)
• 貝蛸(かいだこ) (kaidako)
• 酢蛸(すだこ) (sudako)
• 蛸足(たこあし) (takoashi)
• 蛸烏賊(たこいか) (takoika)
• 蛸鉤(たこかぎ) (takokagi)
• 蛸水母(たこくらげ) (takokurage)
• 蛸頭巾(たこずきん) (takozukin)
• 蛸突(たこつ)き (takotsuki)
• 蛸壷(たこつぼ) (takotsubo): octopus pot; foxhole
• 蛸釣(たこつ)り (takotsuri)
• 蛸胴突(たこどうつ)き (takodōtsuki)
• 蛸入道(たこにゅうどう) (takonyūdō)
• 蛸(たこ)の足(あし) (tako no ashi)
• 蛸(たこ)の木(き) (tako no ki)
• 蛸頭巾(たこずきん) (takozukin)
• 蛸(たこ)の糞(くそ)で頭(あたま)に上(あ)がる (tako no kuso de atama ni agaru)
• 蛸(たこ)の共食(ともぐ)い (tako no tomogui)
• 蛸(たこ)の枕(まくら) (tako no makura)
• 蛸配当(たこはいとう) (takohaitō)
• 蛸引(たこひ)き (takohiki)
• 蛸船(たこぶね) (takobune)
• 蛸部屋(たこべや) (takobeya)
• 蛸坊主(たこぼうず) (takobōzu)
• 蛸焼(たこや)き (takoyaki): takoyaki
• 蛸薬師(たこやくし) (takoyakushi)
• 手長蛸(てながだこ) (tenagadako)
• 引(ひ)っ張(ぱ)り蛸(だこ) (hipparidako)
• 船蛸(ふねだこ) (funedako)
• 真蛸(まだこ) (madako)
• 水蛸(みずだこ) (mizudako)
• 薬鑵(やかん)で茹(ゆ)でた蛸(たこ)のよう (yakan de yudeta tako no yō)
• 茹(ゆ)で蛸(だこ) (yudedako)

Kanji in this term
蛸
たこ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
章魚 鮹 鱆

Noun

蛸(たこ) or 蛸(タコ) • (tako) 

1. octopus

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Korean

Hanja

蛸 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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