螉

螉 U+8789, 螉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8789 ← 螈 [U+8788] CJK Unified Ideographs 螊 → [U+878A]

Translingual

Han character

螉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈金戈一 (LICIM), four-corner 5812₇, composition ⿰虫翁)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33374
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2880, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8789

Chinese

trad.		螉
simp. #		螉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
慃	*qroːŋʔ
袞	*kluːnʔ
蔉	*kluːnʔ
滾	*kluːnʔ
忩	*sʰloːŋ
鬆	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公	*kloːŋ
蚣	*kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁	*qloːŋ
螉	*qloːŋ
蓊	*qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡	*qloːŋ
滃	*qloːŋʔ
暡	*qloːŋʔ
勜	*qloːŋʔ
塕	*qloːŋʔ
瓮	*qloːŋs
崧	*sqʰluŋ
菘	*sqʰluŋ
硹	*sqʰluŋ
淞	*sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙	*sqʰloŋ
倯	*sqʰloŋ
松	*sɢloŋ
訟	*sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌	*sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪	*kljoŋ
彸	*kljoŋ
衳	*kljoŋ
伀	*kljoŋ
妐	*kljoŋ
炂	*kljoŋ
鈆	*kljoŋ, *lon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qloːŋ) : semantic 虫 (“worm”) + phonetic 翁 (OC *qloːŋ).

Etymology

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔuŋ ~ *ʔuəŋ ~ *huŋ ~ *huəŋ (“wasp; hornet”) (whence Proto-Vietic *ʔɔːŋ (“honey bee”) > Vietnamese ong (“bee”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēng (weng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wong
    • Wade–Giles: wêng¹
    • Yale: wēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ueng
    • Palladius: вэн (vɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wəŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'uwng

Rime
Character	螉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏紅切
Baxter	'uwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəwŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔuŋ/
Wang Li	/uŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qloːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螉
Reading #	1/1
No.	4095
Phonetic component	公
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	翁
Old Chinese	/*qloːŋ/

Definitions

螉

1. (obsolete) a parasitic insect on the skins of cattle and horses; gadfly

Compounds

• 牛螉
• 螉䗥／螉𰲯
• 蠓螉
• 蠮螉
• 蠮螉塞
• 醫螉／医螉

 

References

• “螉”, 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

螉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): お (o); おう (ō)

Korean

Hanja

螉 (eumhun 나나니벌 옹 (nananibeol ong))

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 螉

Vietnamese

Han character

螉: Hán Việt readings: ông
螉: Nôm readings: ong, ông

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References

• Nom Foundation