蚅

蚅 U+8685, 蚅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8685 ← 蚄 [U+8684] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚆 → [U+8686]

Translingual

Han character

蚅 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹尸山 (LIHSU), four-corner 5111₂, composition ⿰虫厄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32844
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2837, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8685

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
呃	*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
阸	*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
厄	*qreːɡ
蚅	*qreːɡ
扼	*qreːɡ
軛	*qreːɡ
戹	*qreːɡ
豟	*qreːɡ
呝	*qreːɡ
軶	*qreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qreːɡ) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 厄 (OC *qreːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ak¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ak¹
    • Yale: āk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: eg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐk̚⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'eak

Rime
Character	蚅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	於革切
Baxter	'eak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɛk̚/
Wang Li	/æk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ak1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qreːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚅
Reading #	1/1
No.	2709
Phonetic component	戹
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戹
Old Chinese	/*qreːɡ/

Definitions

蚅

1. ^† moth larvae