蝎

See also: 蠍

蝎	U+874E, 蝎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-874E

← 蝍
[U+874D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝏 →
[U+874F]

Translingual

Han character

蝎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日心女 (LIAPV), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫曷)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1088, character 40
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33254
Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2870, character 3
Unihan data for U+874E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蝎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
愒	kʰaːds, kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	qaːds, qaːd
餲	qraːds, qrads, ɡaːd, qaːd
喝	qraːds, qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	kʰrads, ked, kʰrad, ɡrad, kad, ɡad
偈	ɡrads, ɡrad
猲	kʰob, qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	klaːd, rab
渴	kʰaːd, ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	qʰaːd, qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	ɡaːd, ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	kʰreːd, kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	kʰraːd, ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	ɡrad, ɡad
碣	ɡrad, ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Etymology 1

trad.		蝎
simp. ^#		蝎

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hé (he²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hot³ / hot⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hé
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hé
  - Wade–Giles: ho²
  - Yale: hé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
  - Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hot³ / hot⁶
  - Yale: hot / hoht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hot⁸ / hot⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hod³ / hod⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːt̚³/, /hɔːt̚²/

Middle Chinese: hat

Rime
Character	蝎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡葛切
Baxter	hat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦat̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hot⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝎
Reading #	1/1
No.	5034
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曷
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːd/

Definitions

蝎

insect that eats wood

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see 蠍 (“scorpion”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 蠍).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Compounds

蛇蝎 (shéxiē)
蝎子 (xiēzi)
蝎虎 (xiēhǔ)
蝎蝎螫螫

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see 虹 (“rainbow; primary rainbow; bridge; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 虹).

References

“蝎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

蝎

(Hyōgai kanji)

scorpion

Readings

Go-on: がち (gachi)
Kan-on: かつ (katsu)
Kun: すくもむし (sukumomushi)、さそり (sasori)

Compounds

蛇蝎(だかつ) (dakatsu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蝎
さそり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see the following entry.

【蠍さそり】H

[noun] a scorpion (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones)

Alternative spelling
サソリ

(This term, 蝎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

“^▲蝎”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

蝎 • (gal) (hangeul 갈, revised gal, McCune–Reischauer kal, Yale kal)

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Readings 1

Name : 전갈(scorpion), 빈대(bedbug)
Sound : 갈 (gal)

Readings 2

Name : 나무굼뱅이(the larva of a longicorn)
Sound : 할 (hal)

Vietnamese

Han character

蝎: Hán Nôm readings: hạt, rết, rít, yết

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