螽

螽	U+87BD, 螽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BD

← 螼
[U+87BC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

螾 →
[U+87BE]

Translingual

Han character

螽 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹水卜中戈 (HEYLI) or 竹卜中戈 (HYLI), four-corner 2713₆, composition ⿱冬䖵)

Derived characters

𢥕

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33519
Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2886, character 16
Unihan data for U+87BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		螽
alternative forms		𧍸𧒟𧑄𧕠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
疼	dɯːŋ, duːŋ
冬	*tuːŋ
苳	*tuːŋ
笗	*tuːŋ
炵	tʰuːŋ, duːŋ
佟	*duːŋ
鼕	*duːŋ
鉖	*duːŋ
終	*tjuŋ
螽	*tjuŋ
鼨	*tjuŋ
柊	*tjuŋ
鴤	*tjuŋ
泈	*tjuŋ
蔠	*tjuŋ

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) proposes Sino-Tibetan origin; he reconstructs 螽 (OC *C-juŋ) (though with uncertainty) and compares it to Burmese ကျိုင်း (kyuing:, “locust”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹
  - Yale: jūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
  - Palladius: чжун (čžun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zung¹
  - Yale: jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong
  - Tâi-lô: tsiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwng

Rime
Character	螽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職戎切
Baxter	tsyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/
English	tsyuwng.sje locust
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	螽
Reading #	1/1
No.	2429
Phonetic component	冬
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	終
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/

Definitions

螽

locust
- 秋，雨螽于宋，隊而死也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  秋，雨螽于宋，队而死也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE
  Qiū, yù zhōng yú Sòng, zhuì ér sǐ yě. [Pinyin]
  Autumn, it rained locusts in Song; they fell down and then died.

Compounds

草螽 (cǎozhōng)
蛗螽
螽斯 (zhōngsī)
螽斯之徵 / 螽斯之征
螽斯之慶 / 螽斯之庆
蟿螽
阜螽

Japanese

Kanji

螽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: しゅ (shu)
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
Kun: いなご (inago)

Korean

Hanja

螽 • (jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune–Reischauer chong, Yale cong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螽: Hán Nôm readings: chung

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References

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