蟮

蟮	U+87EE, 蟮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87EE

← 蟭
[U+87ED]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蟯 →
[U+87EF]

Translingual

Han character

蟮 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿廿口 (LITTR), composition ⿰虫善)

Derived characters

𬠺

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1098, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33624
Dae Jaweon: page 1562, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2893, character 16
Unihan data for U+87EE

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
橏	*tjenʔ
嫸	*tjenʔ
善	*ɡjenʔ
譱	*ɡjenʔ
蟮	*djanʔ
鱔	*djanʔ
僐	djenʔ, djens
鄯	djenʔ, djens
墡	*djenʔ
磰	*djenʔ
繕	*ɡjens
膳	*djens
饍	*djens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djanʔ): semantic 虫 (“insect; worm”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ).

Etymology 1

trad.		蟮
simp. ^#		蟮
alternative forms		蟺

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶zoe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
  - Wade–Giles: shan⁴
  - Yale: shàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
  - Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sin⁶
  - Yale: sihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zoe
  - MiniDict: zoe^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zoe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zø²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /zø²³¹/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*djanʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蟮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11086
Phonetic component	善
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	善
Old Chinese	/*djanʔ/
Notes	同蟺說文作蟺

Definitions

蟮

only used in 曲蟮 (qūshàn, “earthworm”)

Compounds

土中曲蟮
曲蟮
蛐蟮

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蟮 – see 鱔 (“eel; swamp eel; resembling advertorial; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鱔).