蝓

Translingual

Han character

蝓 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人一弓 (LIOMN), four-corner 5812₁, composition ⿰虫俞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1089, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33261
• Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2872, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8753

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Chinese

trad.		蝓
simp. #		蝓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
褕	*low, *lo
偷	*l̥ʰoː
媮	*l̥ʰoː, *lo
鍮	*l̥ʰoː
緰	*l'oː, *slo
牏	*l'oː, *l'os, *lo
揄	*l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo
窬	*l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo
歈	*l'oː, *lo
俞	*l̥ʰus, *lo
隃	*slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo
毹	*sro
輸	*hljo, *hljos
鄃	*hljo, *lo
腧	*hljos
逾	*lo
榆	*lo
愉	*lo
渝	*lo
瑜	*lo
蕍	*lo
覦	*lo, *los
蝓	*lo
踰	*lo
崳	*lo
羭	*lo
堬	*lo
瘉	*lo, *loʔ
萮	*lo
騟	*lo
愈	*loʔ
貐	*loʔ
喻	*los
諭	*los

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yú (yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    • Wade–Giles: yü²
    • Yale: yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴
    • Yale: yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yu

Rime
Character	蝓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊朱切
Baxter	yu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/jio/
Shao Rongfen	/io/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juə̆/
Li Rong	/io/
Wang Li	/jĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.lo/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ zyu ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.lo/
English	snail
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	蝓
Reading #	1/1
No.	15862
Phonetic component	俞
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逾
Old Chinese	/*lo/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蝓

1. Only used in 螔蝓 (yíyú); also used as its short form.

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Japanese

Kanji

蝓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kun: でんでんむし (dendemmushi), かたつむり (katatsumuri)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蛞蝓(なめくじ) (namekuji): slug

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Korean

Hanja

蝓 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Compounds

• 활유 (蛞蝓, hwaryu, “slug”)