蜷

See also: 踡
蜷 U+8737, 蜷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8737
← 蜶
[U+8736] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蜸 →
[U+8738]

Translingual

Han character

蜷 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火手山 (LIFQU), four-corner 59112, composition ⿰虫卷)

  1. creep like a worm, curl one's body

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33199
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8737

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蜷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
腃 *kʰruls, *ɡron
卷 *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤 *kronʔ
捲 *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢 *kronʔ
睠 *krons
弮 *kʰron, *krons
犈 *krons, *ɡron
棬 *kʰron
鬈 *kʰron, *ɡron
圈 *kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷 *ɡron
踡 *ɡron
婘 *ɡron
蔨 *ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦 *ɡrons
淃 *ɡrons
綣 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷 *kʰonʔ, *qon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡron): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蜷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨員切
Baxter gjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gwian/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjuɛn/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		quán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kyun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蜷
Reading # 1/1
No. 7191
Phonetic
component 		卷
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		權
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡron/
Notes 見離騷

Definitions

蜷

  1. (of the body) to curl; to coil; to huddle; to wriggle

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蜷

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けん (ken)
  • Kun: にな (nina, 蜷)、みな (mina, 蜷)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蜷
にな
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
河貝子

First attested in the Shinsen Jikyō (898-901);[1] from 蜷 (mina), from Old Japanese 蜷 (mi₁na), from Proto-Japonic *mina.

Pronunciation

  • (Kyoto) に​な [níꜜnà] (Kōki)[1]

Noun

蜷(にな) • (nina) 

  1. [from early 900s] (archaic or dialectal) synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina)”)
  2. [from 1184] (archaic, possibly obsolete) the use of a 蜷結び (ninamusubi, “kind of decorative knot for strings”)
Derived terms
  • 蜷色(にないろ) (ninairo)
  • 蜷貝(ニナがい) (ninagai)
  • 蜷結(になむす)び (ninamusubi)
  • 海蜷(うみにな) (uminina)
  • 磯蜷(イソニナ) (isonina)
  • 川蜷(カワニナ) (kawanina)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蜷
みな
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi₁na), from Proto-Japonic *mina.

Pronunciation

  • (Kyoto) みな [míná] (Kōki – [0])[1]>
  • Historical evolution of the Kyoto pitch accent
※ H for high and flat syllables (◌́), L for low and flat syllables (◌̀), F for high-to-low syllables (◌̂), R for low-to-high syllables (◌̌).
※ References: [1]

Noun

蜷(みな) • (mina) 

  1. [from early 900s] (archaic, possibly obsolete or dialectal) synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina)”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Dai-ni-han Henshū I'inkai (日本国語大辞典第二版編集委員会) (2001-2002) 日本国語大辞典　第二版 [Unabridged Japanese Dictionary: Second Edition], Tokyo (東京都): Shōgakukan (小学館), →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蜷 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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