蜊

蜊

蜊 U+870A, 蜊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-870A ← 蜉 [U+8709] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜋 → [U+870B]

Translingual

Han character

蜊 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹木弓 (LIHDN), four-corner 5210₀, composition ⿰虫利)

1. clam

References

• KangXi: page 1084, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33106
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2856, character 8
• Unihan data for U+870A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
犁	*riːl, *ril
黎	*riːl
莉	*riːl, *r'il, *r'i
黧	*riːl
鯬	*riːl, *ril
筣	*riːl, *ri
蔾	*riːl, *ril
藜	*riːl
邌	*riːl
瓈	*riːl
鵹	*rel
棃	*ril
梨	*ril
蟍	*ril
蜊	*ril
鑗	*ril
利	*rids
痢	*rids
浰	*riːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ril) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 利 (OC *rids)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶, lei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lâ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lí
    • Wade–Giles: li²
    • Yale: lí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁶, lei⁴
    • Yale: leih, lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶, lei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶, léi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²²/, /lei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâ
    • Tâi-lô: lâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laa
    • IPA (Taipei): /la²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /la²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /liɪ/

Rime
Character	蜊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力脂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/li/
Shao Rongfen	/ljɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/li/
Li Rong	/li/
Wang Li	/li/
Bernard Karlgren	/li/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ril/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜊
Reading #	1/1
No.	7893
Phonetic component	利
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	棃
Old Chinese	/*ril/

Definitions

蜊

1. clam

Compounds

蛤蜊 (gélí)

蜊仔 (lâ-á) (Min Nan)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. bivalve

Readings

• On (unclassified): り (ri)
• Kun: あさり (asari)

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Korean

Hanja

蜊 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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