蠹

See also: 蠧 and 螙

蠹	U+8839, 蠹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8839

← 蠸
[U+8838]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蠺 →
[U+883A]

Translingual

Han character

蠹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 4013₆, composition ⿳⿱𰀉冖石䖵)

moth
insects which eat into cloth

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896
Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 9
Unihan data for U+8839

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠹
2nd round simp.		𫊥
alternative forms		蠧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
柘	*tjaɡs
妬	*taːɡs
蠹	*taːɡs
沰	taːɡ, tʰaːɡ
拓	tʰaːɡ, tjaɡ
橐	*tʰaːɡ
袥	*tʰaːɡ
驝	tʰaːɡ, raːɡ
斫	*tjaɡ
磭	ŋrɯnʔ, ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔	*rtaːɡ
跖	*tjaɡ
石	*djaɡ
碩	*djaɡ
祏	*djaɡ
鉐	*djaɡ
鼫	*djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *taːɡs): phonetic 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic 䖵 (“insect”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dù (du⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dù
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dù
  - Wade–Giles: tu⁴
  - Yale: dù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh
  - Palladius: ду (du)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dou³
  - Yale: dou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³/

Middle Chinese: tuH

Rime
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	當故切
Baxter	tuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/tuo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/to^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɔ^H/
Li Rong	/to^H/
Wang Li	/tu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tuo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤak-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*taːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dù
Middle Chinese	‹ tu^H ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁak-s/
English	grubs in wood, vermin
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	蠹
Reading #	1/1
No.	11456
Phonetic component	石
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	妒
Old Chinese	/*taːɡs/

Definitions

蠹

insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
1. (specifically) silverfish
(figuratively) harmful person; vermin
to erode; to eat away at
moth-eaten; worm-eaten

Synonyms

(silverfish):

壁魚 / 壁鱼 (bìyú)
布魚 / 布鱼 (Putian Puxian Min)
書蛀蟲 / 书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
書蟲 / 书虫 (shūchóng)
白魚 / 白鱼 (báiyú)
紙魚 / 纸鱼 (zhǐyú)
蛀 (zhù) (literary, or in compounds)
蛀書蟲 / 蛀书虫
蠹魚 / 蠹鱼 (dùyú)
衣蟲 / 衣虫 (yīchóng)
衣魚 / 衣鱼 (yīyú)

Compounds

國蠹 / 国蠹
巨蠹
戶樞不蠹 / 户枢不蠹 (hùshūbùdù)
書蠹 / 书蠹
朽蠹
桂蠹
民蠹
狡蠹
祛蠹除奸
祿蠹 / 禄蠹 (lùdù)
積蠹 / 积蠹
蠹國 / 蠹国
蠹國害民 / 蠹国害民
蠹國殃民 / 蠹国殃民
蠹害
蠹居棋處 / 蠹居棋处
蠹政
蠹書蟲 / 蠹书虫
蠹簡 / 蠹简
蠹蟲 / 蠹虫 (dùchóng)
蠹魚 / 蠹鱼 (dùyú)
衙蠹
貪官蠹役 / 贪官蠹役
鯗蠹 / 鲞蠹
齒蠹 / 齿蠹 (chǐdù)
齲蠹 / 龋蠹 (qǔdù)

Japanese

Kanji

蠹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): と (to)、つ (tsu)
Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)、しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

蠹 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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