蛀

蛀 U+86C0, 蛀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86C0 ← 蚿 [U+86BF] CJK Unified Ideographs 蛁 → [U+86C1]

Translingual

Han character

蛀 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜土 (LIYG), four-corner 5011₄, composition ⿰虫主)

1. insects that eat books, clothes

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1080, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32947
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2845, character 2
• Unihan data for U+86C0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蛀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjos) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chu

  (Meixian, Guangdong): cu⁴

• Northern Min (KCR): cṳ̿
• Eastern Min (BUC): cé̤ṳ / céu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chù / chiù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zu³

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): jiu³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tsy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
    • Wade–Giles: chu⁴
    • Yale: jù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu³
    • Yale: jyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu⁵³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cṳ̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sy³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cé̤ṳ / céu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡søy²¹³/, /t͡siɛu²¹³/

Note:

• cé̤ṳ - literary;
• céu - vernacular.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chù
    • Tâi-lô: tsù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zux
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiù
    • Tâi-lô: tsiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /t͡siu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siu¹¹/

Note:

• chù - literary;
• chiù - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zu³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsù
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹³/
• (Leizhou)
  • Leizhou Pinyin: jiu³
  • Sinological IPA: /t͡siu²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuH

Rime
Character	蛀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之戍切
Baxter	tsyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛀
Reading #	1/1
No.	17627
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	注
Old Chinese	/*tjos/

Definitions

蛀

1. insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
   1. (specifically) moth
   2. (specifically) silverfish
2. (Southern Min, of insects that eat through paper, clothes, wood, etc.) to bite

Synonyms

• (moth): 蠹 (dù)
• (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)
• 蛀書蟲／蛀书虫
• 蠹 (dù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
• 衣蟲／衣虫 (yīchóng)
• 衣魚／衣鱼 (yīyú)

 

Compounds

• 蛀子
• 蛀牙 (zhùyá)
• 蛀蝕／蛀蚀
• 蛀蟲／蛀虫 (zhùchóng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

蛀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)
• Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)

Korean

Hanja

蛀 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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