蝸

See also: 蜗

蝸 U+8778, 蝸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8778 ← 蝷 [U+8777] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝹 → [U+8779]

Translingual

Han character

蝸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 中戈月月口 (LIBBR), four-corner 5712₇, composition ⿰虫咼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1091, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33338
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8778

Chinese

trad.		蝸
simp.		蜗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 螺 (OC *roːl, “aquatic snail”).

Schuessler (2007) sees possible relation to Proto-Austroasiatic *klɔʔ (“snail, shellfish”), yet that likely resembles Proto-Sino-Tibetan as well as Proto-Tai *ho:jᴬ (“shellfish”) (whence Thai หอย (hɔ̌i, “shellfish”)) and Proto-Mienic *klu̯eiᴬ/ᴮ merely by chance.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wō, guā

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ, ㄍㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wō
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wo
    • Wade–Giles: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
    • Palladius: во (vo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guā
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gua
    • Wade–Giles: kua¹
    • Yale: gwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
    • Palladius: гуа (gua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
    • Yale: wā / wō / gwā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa¹ / wo¹ / gua¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
    • Tâi-lô: o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oy
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
    • Tâi-lô: oo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: of
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwea, kwae

Rime
Character	蝸	蝸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	古娃切	古華切
Baxter	kwea	kwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛ/	/kˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæ/	/kʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæi/	/kua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨj/	/kwaɨ/
Li Rong	/kuɛ/	/kua/
Wang Li	/kwai/	/kwa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwai/	/kwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guā	guā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaai1	gwaa1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rˤoj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːl/, /*kʷroːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wō
Middle Chinese	‹ kwæ ›
Old Chinese	/*k.rˁoj/ (dialect: *k.rˁ- > *kˁr-)
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	蝸	蝸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4384	4394
Phonetic component	冎	冎
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	瓜
Old Chinese	/*kroːl/	/*kʷroːl/

Definitions

蝸

1. terrestrial snail

Compounds

• 人工蝸牛 / 人工蜗牛
• 無殼蝸牛 / 无壳蜗牛 (wúké wōniú)
• 耳蝸 / 耳蜗 (ěrwō)
• 蝸利蠅名 / 蜗利蝇名
• 蝸名蠅利 / 蜗名蝇利
• 蝸居 / 蜗居 (wōjū)
• 蝸居蟻垤 / 蜗居蚁垤
• 蝸廬 / 蜗庐
• 蝸步難移 / 蜗步难移
• 蝸步龜移 / 蜗步龟移 (wōbùguīyí)
• 蝸牛 / 蜗牛 (wōniú)
• 蝸窄 / 蜗窄
• 蝸篆 / 蜗篆
• 蝸舍 / 蜗舍
• 蝸螺 / 蜗螺
• 蝸行 / 蜗行
• 蝸角 / 蜗角
• 蝸角之爭 / 蜗角之争 (wōjiǎozhīzhēng)
• 蝸角虛名 / 蜗角虚名
• 蝸角蠅頭 / 蜗角蝇头
• 蝸輪 / 蜗轮
• 蝸髫 / 蜗髫
• 蠅利蝸名 / 蝇利蜗名
• 蠅名蝸利 / 蝇名蜗利
• 蠅頭蝸角 / 蝇头蜗角

See also

• 螺 (“aquatic snail”)

Japanese

Kanji

蝸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. snail

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: かたつむり (katatsumuri, 蝸)

Compounds

• 蝸角(かかく) (kakaku)
• 蝸牛(かぎゅう) (kagyū): snail; cochlea
• 蝸舎(かしゃ) (kasha)
• 蝸涎(かせん) (kasen)
• 蝸牛(かたつむり) (katatsumuri): snail
• 蝸廬(かろ) (karo)
• 蝸牛(でんでんむし) (dendenmushi)
• 蝸螺(にな) (nina)

Korean

Hanja

蝸 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

1. snail

Compounds

• 와우 (蝸牛, wau, “snail”)

Vietnamese

Han character

蝸: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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