蚊

蚊 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜大 (LIYK), four-corner 5014₀, composition ⿰虫文)

• 𡦉

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32849
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2840, character 8
• Unihan data for U+868A

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

From Proto-Austroasiatic *mɔːs with a nominal suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Khmer មូស (muuh), Vietnamese muỗi.

蚊

1. mosquito (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
   • 2013 [9 CE], Yang Xiong, translated by Michael Nylan, Exemplary Figures, Seattle: University of Washington Press, page 195:

     「貨殖？」曰：「蚊。」曰：「血國三千，使捋疏、飲水、褐博，沒齒無愁也？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     「货殖？」曰：「蚊。」曰：「血国三千，使捋疏、饮水、褐博，没齿无愁也？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     “Huòzhí?” Yuē: “Wén.” Yuē: “Xuè guó sānqiān, shǐ lǚ shū, yǐn shuǐ, hè bó, méi chǐ wú chóu yě?” [Pinyin]

     “The moneymakers?” “Mere mosquitoes. I say they sucked the blood of [three] thousands of states. And if only they lived frugally, picking wild greens to eat, drinking plain water, and wearing the simplest clothes, they would have sparked no resentment to the end of their days.”

From 文 (man4, “classifier for copper coins”).

蚊

1. (Cantonese) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck; ringgit; dong

   兩百蚊／两百蚊 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ baak³ man^4-1 [Jyutping]  ―  two hundred bucks

Cognate to Taishanese (and other Siyi dialects) 民 (min2), as in 細民仔／细民仔 (lham1 min2 doi2).

Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may come from the same etymon that gives 便 (OC *ben) as in 便嬖 (OC *ben peːɡs), which he relates to Proto-Kam-Sui *mpaːn¹ (“male (person)”) and Proto-Hlai *C-maːn (“male (person)”).

蚊

1. (Cantonese) Used in terms for people.

• “蚊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mosquito

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: か (ka, 蚊, Jōyō)、かあ (kā, 蚊)

From Old Japanese. Possibly related to 噛む (kamu, “to bite”) or 痒い (kayui, “itchy”), although the ultimate derivation remains unknown.

• (Tokyo) か [kà] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠]

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蚊(か) or 蚊(カ) • (ka) 

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 161:

     蚊蟻 上可 下音疑 訓安利乃古

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カ (ka).

Cognate with 蚊 (ka). Likely pronounced long due to being a single mora. Elongation of single mora words is still seen in the Ōsaka dialect with words like teː "hand" from te. The 794 quotation is the oldest extant example of a long vowel in Japanese.

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ː]

蚊(かあ) • (kā) 

1. mosquito
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 104:

     蚊蝄䖟蜺 [...] 上二字加安下二字阿牟

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi, page 3 (back):

     蚊 加阿

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Middle Chinese 蚊 (MC mjun).

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ɴ]

蚊(ぶん) • (bun) 

1. mosquito

• Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN.
• Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.

蚊 (eum 문 (mun))

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蚊: Hán Nôm readings: văn, mân

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