蝸

See also: 蜗

蝸	U+8778, 蝸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8778

← 蝷
[U+8777]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝹 →
[U+8779]

Translingual

Han character

蝸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月月口 (LIBBR), four-corner 5712₇, composition ⿰虫咼)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1091, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33338
Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 14
Unihan data for U+8778

Chinese

trad.		蝸
simp.		蜗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	ɡ·roːl, kʷroːl
過	kloːl, kloːls
渦	kloːl, qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	kloːl, ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	koːl, kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	kloːl, qloːl
鐹	kloːlʔ, kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	kʰloːl, kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	kroːl, kʷroːl
媧	kroːl, kʷroːl
騧	kroːl, kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	qʰroːls, qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 螺 (OC *roːl, “aquatic snail”).

Schuessler (2007) sees possible relation to Proto-Austroasiatic *klɔʔ (“snail, shellfish”), yet that likely resembles Proto-Sino-Tibetan as well as Proto-Tai *ho:jᴬ (“shellfish”) (whence Thai หอย (hɔ̌i, “shellfish”)) and Proto-Mien *klu̯eiᴬ/ᴮ merely by chance.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wō, guā

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ, ㄍㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wō
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wo
  - Wade–Giles: wo¹
  - Yale: wō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
  - Palladius: во (vo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guā
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gua
  - Wade–Giles: kua¹
  - Yale: gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
  - Palladius: гуа (gua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
  - Yale: wā / wō / gwā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹ / wo¹ / gwaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa¹ / wo¹ / gua¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/

Middle Chinese: kwea, kwae

Rime
Character	蝸	蝸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	古娃切	古華切
Baxter	kwea	kwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛ/	/kˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæ/	/kʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæi/	/kua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨj/	/kwaɨ/
Li Rong	/kuɛ/	/kua/
Wang Li	/kwai/	/kwa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwai/	/kwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guā	guā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaai¹	gwaa¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rˤoj/

(Zhengzhang): /*kroːl/, /*kʷroːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wō
Middle Chinese	‹ kwæ ›
Old Chinese	/k.rˁoj/ (dialect: k.rˁ- > *kˁr-)
English	snail
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	蝸	蝸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4384	4394
Phonetic component	冎	冎
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	瓜
Old Chinese	/*kroːl/	/*kʷroːl/

Definitions

蝸

terrestrial snail

Compounds

人工蝸牛 / 人工蜗牛
無殼蝸牛 / 无壳蜗牛 (wúké-wōniú)
耳蝸 / 耳蜗 (ěrwō)
蝸利蠅名 / 蜗利蝇名
蝸名蠅利 / 蜗名蝇利
蝸居 / 蜗居 (wōjū)
蝸居蟻垤 / 蜗居蚁垤
蝸廬 / 蜗庐
蝸步難移 / 蜗步难移
蝸步龜移 / 蜗步龟移 (wōbùguīyí)
蝸牛 / 蜗牛 (wōniú)
蝸窄 / 蜗窄
蝸篆 / 蜗篆
蝸舍 / 蜗舍
蝸螺 / 蜗螺
蝸行 / 蜗行
蝸角 / 蜗角
蝸角之爭 / 蜗角之争 (wōjiǎozhīzhēng)
蝸角虛名 / 蜗角虚名
蝸角蠅頭 / 蜗角蝇头
蝸輪 / 蜗轮
蝸髫 / 蜗髫
蠅利蝸名 / 蝇利蜗名
蠅名蝸利 / 蝇名蜗利
蠅頭蝸角 / 蝇头蜗角

Japanese

Kanji

蝸

(Hyōgai kanji)

snail

Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: か (ka)
Kun: かたつむり (katatsumuri, 蝸)

Compounds

蝸角(かかく) (kakaku)
蝸牛(かぎゅう) (kagyū): snail; cochlea
蝸舎(かしゃ) (kasha)
蝸牛(かたつむり) (katatsumuri), 蝸牛(でんでんむし) (dendenmushi): snail
蝸廬(かろ) (karo)
蝸螺(にな) (nina)

Korean

Hanja

蝸 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Compounds

와우 (蝸牛, wau, “snail”)

Vietnamese

Han character

蝸: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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