蚍蜉

蚍蜉

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (蚍蜉)		蚍	蜉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pífú

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴ fau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): pî-hû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pífú
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ ㄈㄨˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyifwu
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵ fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pei⁴ fau⁴
    • Yale: pèih fàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴ fau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴ feo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹ fɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pî-hû
    • Tâi-lô: pî-hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pi'huu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi¹³⁻²² hu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pi²⁴⁻²² hu²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /biɪ  bɨu/▼

Rime
Character	蚍	蜉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	房脂切	縛謀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪ/	/bɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/bi/	/biu/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɪ/	/biəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bi/	/buw/
Li Rong	/bi/	/biu/
Wang Li	/bi/	/bĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi/	/bʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pí	fóu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*bi  bu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)u/
English	mayfly
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	蚍	蜉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	530	3347
Phonetic component	比	孚
Rime group	脂	幽
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	𣬈	浮
Old Chinese	/*bi/	/*bu/

Noun

蚍蜉

1. (archaic) a type of large grey ant with a large head and antennae
2. (archaic) termite

Derived terms

蚍蜉撼大樹／蚍蜉撼大树 (pífúhàndàshù)

蚍蜉撼樹／蚍蜉撼树 (pífúhànshù)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
蚍	蜉
ひ Hyōgaiji	ふ Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひ​ふ [híꜜfù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [çiɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

蚍蜉 (hiragana ひふ, rōmaji hifu)

1. large ant

Derived terms

• 蚍蜉大樹 (ひふたいじゅ)を動 (ご)かす (hifu taiju o gokasu)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN