蚔

蚔	U+8694, 蚔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8694

← 蚓
[U+8693]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蚕 →
[U+8695]

Translingual

Han character

蚔 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹女心 (LIHVP), four-corner 5214₀, composition ⿰虫氏)

ant eggs

Derived characters

𧷑

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 36
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32867
Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2840, character 2
Unihan data for U+8694

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
氏	skeŋ, kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹	kje, ɡe
紙	*kjeʔ
帋	*kjeʔ
扺	*kjeʔ
坁	*kjeʔ
汦	kjeʔ, tjil
忯	ɡje, ɡe
眂	ɡje, ɡils
舐	*ɦljeʔ
芪	*ɡe
祇	*ɡe
疧	*ɡe
軝	*ɡe
蚔	*ɡe

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qí (qi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴ / zi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qí
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cí
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi²
  - Yale: chí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kei⁴ / zi⁶
  - Yale: kèih / jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴ / dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴ / ji⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/, /t͡siː²²/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚔
Reading #	1/1
No.	11531
Phonetic component	氏
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

蚔

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a venomous scorpion
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of insect

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C12225
“蚔”, 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–