螼

螼 U+87BC, 螼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BC ← 螻 [U+87BB] CJK Unified Ideographs 螽 → [U+87BD]

Translingual

Han character

螼 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿中一 (LITLM), four-corner 5411₄, composition ⿰虫堇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33516
• Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2883, character 4
• Unihan data for U+87BC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		螼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
囏	*krɯːn
螼	*kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
堇	*ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
墐	*ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊	*ɡrɯn
僅	*ɡrɯns
瑾	*ɡrɯns
覲	*ɡrɯns
殣	*ɡrɯns
饉	*ɡrɯns
廑	*ɡrɯns
瘽	*ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏	*ɡrɯns
鄞	*ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
謹	*kɯnʔ
槿	*kɯnʔ
漌	*kɯnʔ
慬	*kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
勤	*ɡɯn
懃	*ɡɯn
懄	*ɡɯn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐn (qin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻin³
    • Yale: chǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiin
    • Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: khjinX, khjinH

Rime
Character	螼	螼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	弃忍切	羌印切
Baxter	khjinX	khjinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰiɪnX/	/kʰiɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰinX/	/kʰinH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰjenX/	/kʰjenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰinX/	/kʰinH/
Li Rong	/kʰiĕnX/	/kʰiĕnH/
Wang Li	/kʰĭĕnX/	/kʰĭĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ĕnX/	/kʰi̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qǐn	qìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	han2	han3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C-qʰrə[r]ʔ/, /*C-qʰrə[r]ʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰrɯnʔ/, /*kʰrɯns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螼	螼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qǐn	qǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ khinX ›	‹ khinH ›
Old Chinese	/*C-qʰrə[r]ʔ/	/*C-qʰrə[r]ʔ-s/
English	earthworm	earthworm
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	螼	螼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6729	6730
Phonetic component	堇	堇
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	螼	螼
Old Chinese	/*kʰrɯnʔ/	/*kʰrɯns/

Definitions

螼

1. ^† earthworm