蠍
See also: 蝎
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Translingual
Han character
蠍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日女人 (LIAVO), four-corner 57182, composition ⿰虫歇)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33707
- Dae Jaweon: page 1564, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2896, character 18
- Unihan data for U+880D
Chinese
| trad. | 蠍/蝎* | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 蝎* | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 愒 | *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad |
| 馤 | *qaːds |
| 靄 | *qaːds, *qaːd |
| 餲 | *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd |
| 喝 | *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd |
| 揭 | *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad |
| 偈 | *ɡrads, *ɡrad |
| 猲 | *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad |
| 葛 | *kaːd |
| 輵 | *kaːd |
| 獦 | *klaːd, *rab |
| 渴 | *kʰaːd, *ɡrad |
| 嵑 | *kʰaːd |
| 暍 | *qʰaːd, *qad |
| 曷 | *ɡaːd |
| 褐 | *ɡaːd |
| 鶡 | *ɡaːd |
| 毼 | *ɡaːd |
| 蝎 | *ɡaːd |
| 鞨 | *ɡaːd, *ɢljad |
| 遏 | *qaːd |
| 齃 | *qaːd |
| 堨 | *qaːd |
| 擖 | *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb |
| 楬 | *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 朅 | *kʰrad |
| 藒 | *kʰrad |
| 竭 | *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 碣 | *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 羯 | *kad |
| 鍻 | *kad |
| 歇 | *qʰad |
| 蠍 | *qʰad |
| 謁 | *qad |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰad): semantic 虫 + phonetic 歇 (OC *qʰad).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): kit3 / hit3
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): giad5
- Jin (Wiktionary): xieh4
- Eastern Min (BUC): kiék
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): giat / hiat
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7shiq
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): sie6
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xiē
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sie
- Wade–Giles: hsieh1
- Yale: syē
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shie
- Palladius: се (se)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: xie2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xie
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕiɛ²¹/
- (Dungan)
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: kit3 / hit3
- Yale: kit / hit
- Cantonese Pinyin: kit8 / hit8
- Guangdong Romanization: kid3 / hid3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰiːt̚³/, /hiːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- Jin
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: giat
- Tâi-lô: giat
- Phofsit Daibuun: giad
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡiɛt̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiat
- Tâi-lô: hiat
- Phofsit Daibuun: hiad
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛt̚⁵/
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛt̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Note:
- giat - colloquial;
- hiat - literary.
- Middle Chinese: xjot
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*qʰad/
Definitions
蠍
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 蠍子 (“scorpion”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 蠍子 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 蠍子 |
| Harbin | 蠍子 | |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 蠍子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 蠍子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 蠍子 |
| Xi'an | 蠍子 | |
| Xining | 蠍子 | |
| Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) | 蠍子 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 蠍子 |
| Ürümqi | 蠍子 | |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 蠍子 |
| Liuzhou | 蠍子 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 蠍子 |
| Yangzhou | 蠍子 | |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 蠍子 |
| Dongguan | 蠍子 | |
| Gan | Lichuan | 蠍子 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 蠍 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 蠍子 |
| Xinzhou | 蠍子 | |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 蠍 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 蠍仔 |
| Tainan | 蠍仔, 蠍仔蟲 GT | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 象夾 | |
| Leizhou | 翹尾蟻 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 蠍子 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 蠍子 |
| Danyang | 蠍子 | |
| Hangzhou | 蠍子 | |
| Wenzhou | 蠍 | |
| Jinhua | 蠍子 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 蠍子 |
| Note | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) | |
Compounds
References
- “蠍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “蠍”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
Japanese
Kanji
蠍
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 蠍 |
| さそり Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 蝎 |
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Pronunciation
Noun
蠍 or 蠍 • (sasori)
- a scorpion (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones)
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
蠍 • (gal) (hangeul 갈)
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Vietnamese
Han character
蠍: Hán Nôm readings: hiết, hạt, yết
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