蝮

Translingual

Han character

蝮 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人日水 (LIOAE), four-corner 5814₇, composition ⿰虫复)

1. venomous snake, viper

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1091, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33309
• Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2871, character 3
• Unihan data for U+876E

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Chinese

trad.		蝮
simp. #		蝮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fù
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Yale: fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fuk¹
    • Yale: fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: phjuwk

Rime
Character	蝮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	芳福切
Baxter	phjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuwk̚/
Li Rong	/pʰiuk̚/
Wang Li	/pʰĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰuɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝮
Reading #	1/1
No.	3547
Phonetic component	复
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蝮
Old Chinese	/*pʰuɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蝮

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Japanese

Kanji

蝮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pit viper

Readings

• Go-on: ふく (fuku)
• Kan-on: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: まむし (mamushi, 蝮)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蝮
はみ Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

/pami₂/ → /pami/ → /fami/ → /hami/

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō dictionary of 938 CE.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “derivations? also mi₂ might be wrong/”)

Noun

蝮(はみ) or 蝮(ハミ) • (hami) 

1. (dated, possibly obsolete) mamushi, pit viper

Derived terms

• くちはみ (kuchihami), くちばみ (kuchibami)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蝮
まむし Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Compound of 真 (ma, “true”) + 虫 (mushi, “snake”).

Noun

蝮(まむし) or 蝮(マムシ) • (mamushi) 

1. Short for 日本蝮 (mamushi ()).
2. (by extension) a pit viper, adder
   • 1999 July 22, “フレイム・ヴァイパー [Flame Viper]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

     シュルシュルと素(す)早(ばや)く動(うご)き、口(くち)から火(か)炎(えん)をはくマムシ。

     Shurushuru to subayaku ugoki, kuchi kara kaen o haku mamushi.

     A pit viper that spits fire and slithers swiftly.

3. person who is feared by others but gives no harm (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
4. Short for まむし指.

Compounds

• 蝮(マムシ)草(グサ) (mamushigusa, )
• 蝮(まむし)丼(どん) (mamushi-don), 蝮(まむし)丼(どんぶり) (mamushi-donburi, alternative name of 鰻丼)
• マムシ属(ぞく) (mamushi-zoku)
• 日(ニ)本(ホン)蝮(マムシ) (Nihon mamushi, “mamushi”, )

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Korean

Hanja

蝮 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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