蚼

蚼	U+86BC, 蚼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86BC

← 蚻
[U+86BB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蚽 →
[U+86BD]

Translingual

Han character

蚼 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心口 (LIPR), four-corner 5712₀, composition ⿰虫句)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32933
Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2844, character 12
Unihan data for U+86BC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蚼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
勾	koː, koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	koː, ɡo
句	koː, koːs, kos, ɡo
夠	koː, koːs, *kʰoː
枸	koː, koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	koː, koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	koːʔ, ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	koːʔ, qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	koːs, kʰoːs, qʰoːs, kos
雊	*koːs
竘	kʰoːʔ, kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	qʰoːʔ, qʰos
蚼	qʰoːʔ, ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	qʰoːs, ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	koʔ, kos
絇	kos, ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	ɡo, qʰo, qʰoʔ, qʰos
欨	qʰo, qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	qʰoʔ, qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰoːʔ, *ɡo): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 句 (OC *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǒu (gou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǒu
  - Wade–Giles: kou³
  - Yale: gǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goou
  - Palladius: гоу (gou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gau²
  - Yale: gáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: geo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵/

Definitions

蚼

used in 蚼犬

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qú (qu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qú
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
  - Wade–Giles: chʻü²
  - Yale: chyú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
  - Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: keoi⁴
  - Yale: kèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: koey⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: gju, xuwX

Rime
Character	蚼	蚼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	其俱切	呼后切
Baxter	gju	xuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨo/	/həu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡio/	/həu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡio/	/xəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guə̆/	/həw^X/
Li Rong	/ɡio/	/xu^X/
Wang Li	/ɡĭu/	/xəu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯u/	/xə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qú	hǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	keoi⁴	hau²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤ(r)oʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡo/, /*qʰoːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蚼
Reading #	1/1
Middle Chinese	‹ xuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁ(r)oʔ/
English	ant (Sagart & Ma, 2020)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚼	蚼
Reading #	2/2	1/2
No.	7117	7087
Phonetic component	句	句
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	衢	吼
Old Chinese	/*ɡo/	/*qʰoːʔ/

Definitions

蚼

used in 玄蚼