蠬

蠬 U+882C, 蠬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-882C ← 蠫 [U+882B] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠭 → [U+882D]

Translingual

Han character

蠬 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜月心 (LIYBP), four-corner 5111₁, composition ⿰虫龍)

1. dragon-like insects

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1102, character 52
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33833
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2905, character 6
• Unihan data for U+882C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóng (long²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lóng
    • Wade–Giles: lung²
    • Yale: lúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: long
    • Palladius: лун (lun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ³⁵/

Definitions

蠬

1. only used in 蠬蠭／蠬蜂

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ, from Old Chinese 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ, “dragon”).

Noun

蠬 (ròu᷃)

1. dragon

Descendants

• Vietnamese: rồng (蠬)

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651), “ròu᷄”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

Vietnamese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 虫 (“insect; creature”) + 龍 (“dragon”).

Han character

蠬: Nôm readings: rồng, luồng

1. chữ Nôm form of rồng (“dragon”)