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)

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 (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsy

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 Neipu)
  - 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
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tsy
  - MiniDict: tsy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/

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	/t͡ɕɨo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕio^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕio^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕio^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯u^H/
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

insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, grains etc. (e.g. moth, silverfish, etc.)
(of insects) to eat through

Synonyms

(moth): 蠹 (dù)
(silverfish):

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壁魚 / 壁鱼 (bìyú)
布魚 / 布鱼 (Putian Puxian Min)
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

(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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