螌

螌	U+878C, 螌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-878C

← 螋
[U+878B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

融 →
[U+878D]

Translingual

Han character

螌 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹水中一戈 (HELMI), composition ⿱般虫)

a striped, poisonous fly

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 41
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33383
Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 27
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2879, character 12
Unihan data for U+878C

Chinese

trad.		螌
simp. ^#		螌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
螌	*praːn
般	praːn, paːn, *baːn
媻	baːl, baːn
搫	baːl, baːn
搬	*paːn
盤	*baːn
磐	*baːn
瘢	*baːn
幋	*baːn
槃	*baːn
縏	*baːn
鎜	*baːn
鞶	*baːn

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ban
  - Wade–Giles: pan¹
  - Yale: bān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
  - Palladius: бань (banʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: baan¹
  - Yale: bāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ban¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: paen

Rime
Character	螌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布還切
Baxter	paen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨn/
Li Rong	/pan/
Wang Li	/pan/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*praːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螌
Reading #	1/1
No.	226
Phonetic component	般
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	班
Old Chinese	/*praːn/

Definitions

螌

only used in 螌蝥 (“cantharis; Spanish fly”)

Compounds

螌蝥 (bānmáo)

Japanese

Kanji

螌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): はん (han)、ばん (ban)

Korean

Hanja

螌 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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