鼈

鼈 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+12, 25 strokes, cangjie input 火大口難山 (FKRXU), composition ⿱敝黽)

• 虌, 𫦣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1524, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48305
• Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4771, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9F08

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 黽.

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: へち (hechi)
• Kan-on: へつ (hetsu)
• Kan’yō-on: べつ (betsu)
• Kun: すっぽん (suppon, 鼈)、かめ (kame, 鼈)

• 鱉

Unknown, theories include:

1. Shift from スホン (suhon), the sound when it jumps into a river:

   /sufon/ → /suppon/

2. Corruption of 朱盆 (shubon, literally “vermillion tray”), from the resemblance of its shell:

   /ɕubon/ → /ɕuppon/ → /suppon/

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Tokyo) すっぽん [sùppóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sɨ̥p̚põ̞ɴ]

鼈(すっぽん) or 鼈(スッポン) • (suppon) 

1. a Chinese softshell turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis

   Synonyms: 鼈亀 (tochigame), (Kansai) 丸 (maru)

   Hypernym: 亀 (kame)

2. (theater) in kabuki, a trapdoor located on the 花道 (hanamichi, “walkway through the audience to the stage”)
3. (nautical) a bilge pump used on a 和船 (wasen, “traditional Japanese ship”)

• 鼈(すっぽん)と月(つき) (suppon to tsuki), 月(つき)と鼈(すっぽん) (tsuki to suppon, “the moon and suppon (seem alike but are different) → like chalk and cheese”)

• 鼈(すっぽん)が時(とき)をつくる (suppon ga toki o tsukuru)

From Middle Chinese 鱉 (MC pjiet).

• (Tokyo) べつ [béꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [be̞t͡sɨ]

鼈(べつ) • (betsu) 

1. (rare) a Chinese softshell turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis

• 鼈(べつ)人(ひと)を食(く)わんとして却(かえ)って人(ひと)に食(く)わる (betsu hito o kuwan to shite kaette hito ni kuwaru)
• 月鼈(げつべつ) (getsubetsu, “the moon and suppon (seem alike but are different) → like chalk and cheese”)

鼈 • (byeol) (hangeul 별, McCune–Reischauer pyŏl, Yale pyel)

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