蜎

蜎 U+2F9B9, 蜎 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9B9 ← 蚈 [U+2F9B8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 蛢 → [U+2F9BA]

Translingual

Han character

蜎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口月 (LIRB), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫肙)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33115
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 11
• Unihan data for U+870E

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Chinese

trad.		蜎
simp. #		蜎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
絹	*kʷens
狷	*kʷens, *kʷeːns
蜎	*ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲	*qʰʷen, *qʷeːn
娟	*qʷen
悁	*qʷen
捐	*ɢʷen
涓	*kʷeːn
鵑	*kʷeːn
睊	*kʷeːn, *kʷeːns
焆	*kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd
鞙	*kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ
埍	*kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ
罥	*kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns
羂	*kʷleːnʔ
瓹	*kʷeːns
梋	*qʰʷeːn
鋗	*qʰʷeːn
駽	*qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns
琄	*ɡʷeːnʔ
剈	*qʷeːn
肙	*qʷeːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuān (yuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuan
    • Wade–Giles: yüan¹
    • Yale: ywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun¹
    • Yale: yūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'wen, 'jwien, gjwienX

Rime
Character	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	先 (86)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	IV	III	III
Fanqie	烏玄切	於緣切	狂兖切
Baxter	'wen	'jwien	gjwienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔwen/	/ʔiuᴇn/	/ɡiuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷen/	/ʔʷiɛn/	/ɡʷiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuɛn/	/ʔjuæn/	/ɡjuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwɛn/	/ʔwian/	/gwianX/
Li Rong	/ʔuen/	/ʔiuɛn/	/ɡiuɛnX/
Wang Li	/iwen/	/ĭwɛn/	/ɡĭwɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiwen/	/ʔi̯wɛn/	/gi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	yuān	juàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun1	jyun1	gyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷenʔ/, /*qʷˤen/, /*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷenʔ/, /*qʷen/, /*qʷeːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuān	yuān	yuān
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwienX ›	‹ ʔwen ›	‹ gjwienX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷenʔ/	/*qʷˁen/	/*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/
English	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending	crawl (as an insect); soft, bending
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	蜎	蜎	蜎
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	16063	16067	16090
Phonetic component	肙	肙	肙
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蜎	娟	淵
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷenʔ/	/*qʷen/	/*qʷeːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蜎

1. mosquito larva

Synonyms

• 孑孓 (jiéjué)
• 跟頭蟲／跟头虫 (gēntouchóng)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en); けん (ken); げん (gen)
• Kun: ぼうふら (bōfura)