虵

虵	U+8675, 虵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8675

← 虴
[U+8674]

CJK Unified Ideographs

虶 →
[U+8676]

Translingual

Han character

虵 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心木 (LIPD), composition ⿰虫也)

References

KangXi: page 1076, character 32

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32820

Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 17

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 2

Unihan data for U+8675

Chinese

simp. and trad.		虵

Glyph origin 1

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

	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	l̥ʰaːl, l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	l'aːl, l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	ɦljaːl, hljal, *hljals
虵	ɦljal, laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	l̥ʰalʔ, l'alʔ, *lal
肔	l̥ʰalʔ, lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	l'alʔ, hljalʔ
施	hljal, hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	lel, lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	lal, lalʔ
酏	lal, lalʔ
匜	lal, lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	lals, ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 虵 – see 蛇 (“snake; serpent; illegal immigrant; etc.”). (This character, 虵, is a variant form of 蛇.)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yě (ye³)
(Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yě
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yě
  - Wade–Giles: yeh³
  - Yale: yě
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yee
  - Palladius: е (je)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴/

Middle Chinese: /jia^X/

Rime
Character	虵
Reading #	3/3
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊者切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jia^X/
Pan Wuyun	/jia^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ia^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jia^X/
Li Rong	/ia^X/
Wang Li	/jĭa^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯a^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	je⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*laːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	虵
Reading #	2/3
No.	14774
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	野
Old Chinese	/*laːlʔ/

Definitions

虵

Used in 虵蛭.

Glyph origin 2

simp. and trad.		虵

Parallel construction with 他 (“he, him”), 她 (“she, her”), 牠 (“(animal) it”), etc., changing the radical to that of 蛤 (“frog, toad”).

Etymology

From 他 (tā).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tā (ta¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): taa¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tā
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ta
  - Wade–Giles: tʻa¹
  - Yale: tā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
  - Palladius: та (ta)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: taa¹
  - Yale: tā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: taa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ta¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaː⁵⁵/

Definitions

虵

(neologism, Internet slang) Third-person singular pronoun referring to Jiang Zemin in Moha culture.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03624

Japanese

Kanji

虵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: い (i); じゃ (ja); た (ta)
Kan-on: い (i); しゃ (sha); た (ta)
Kan’yō-on: だ (da)
Kun: へび (hebi, 虵)