䗛

䗛	U+45DB, 䗛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-45DB

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Translingual

Han character

䗛 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人中月 (LIOLB), composition ⿰虫脩)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1093, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2878, character 20
Unihan data for U+45DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		䗛

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 脩 (OC *slɯw).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiū (xiu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saau¹ / suk¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiū
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siou
  - Wade–Giles: hsiu¹
  - Yale: syōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou
  - Palladius: сю (sju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: saau¹ / suk¹
  - Yale: sāau / sūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saau¹ / suk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: sao¹ / sug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːu̯⁵⁵/, /sʊk̚⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siu¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: siu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁵⁴⁴/

Definitions

䗛

stick insect (insects of the order Phasmida)

Synonyms

竹節蟲／竹节虫 (zhújiéchóng)

Compounds

葉䗛 / 叶䗛 (yèxiū)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “䗛”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.