蠹

See also: 蠧 and 螙

蠹 U+8839, 蠹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8839 ← 蠸 [U+8838] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠺 → [U+883A]

Translingual

Han character

蠹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 4013₆, composition ⿳⿱𰀉冖石䖵)

1. moth
2. insects which eat into cloth

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896
• Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8839

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠹
2nd round simp.		𫊥
alternative forms		蠧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
柘	*tjaɡs
妬	*taːɡs
蠹	*taːɡs
沰	*taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
拓	*tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
橐	*tʰaːɡ
袥	*tʰaːɡ
驝	*tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
斫	*tjaɡ
磭	*ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔	*rtaːɡ
跖	*tjaɡ
石	*djaɡ
碩	*djaɡ
祏	*djaɡ
鉐	*djaɡ
鼫	*djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taːɡs) : phonetic 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic 䖵 (“insect”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dù (du⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dù
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dù
    • Wade–Giles: tu⁴
    • Yale: dù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou³
    • Yale: dou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tuH

Rime
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	當故切
Baxter	tuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/tuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/toH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɔH/
Li Rong	/toH/
Wang Li	/tuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*taːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dù
Middle Chinese	‹ tuH ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁak-s/
English	grubs in wood, vermin
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	蠹
Reading #	1/1
No.	11456
Phonetic component	石
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	妒
Old Chinese	/*taːɡs/

Definitions

蠹

1. insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
   1. (specifically) silverfish
2. (figuratively) harmful person; vermin
3. to erode; to eat away at
4. moth-eaten; worm-eaten

Synonyms

• (silverfish):

• 壁魚／壁鱼 (bìyú)
• 書蛀蟲／书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
• 書蟲／书虫 (shūchóng)
• 白魚／白鱼 (báiyú)
• 紙魚／纸鱼 (zhǐyú)
• 蛀 (zhù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 蛀書蟲／蛀书虫
• 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
• 衣蟲／衣虫 (yīchóng)
• 衣魚／衣鱼 (yīyú)

 

Compounds

• 國蠹／国蠹
• 巨蠹
• 戶樞不蠹／户枢不蠹 (hùshūbùdù)
• 書蠹／书蠹
• 朽蠹
• 桂蠹
• 民蠹
• 狡蠹
• 祛蠹除奸
• 祿蠹／禄蠹 (lùdù)
• 積蠹／积蠹
• 蠹國／蠹国
• 蠹國害民／蠹国害民
• 蠹國殃民／蠹国殃民
• 蠹害
• 蠹居棋處／蠹居棋处
• 蠹政
• 蠹書蟲／蠹书虫
• 蠹簡／蠹简
• 蠹蟲／蠹虫 (dùchóng)
• 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
• 衙蠹
• 貪官蠹役／贪官蠹役
• 鯗蠹／鲞蠹
• 齒蠹／齿蠹 (chǐdù)
• 齲蠹／龋蠹 (qǔdù)

 

Japanese

Kanji

蠹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): と (to); つ (tsu)
• Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi); しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

蠹 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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