蜷

蜷

See also: 踡

蜷 U+8737, 蜷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8737 ← 蜶 [U+8736] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜸 → [U+8738]

Translingual

Han character

蜷 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火手山 (LIFQU), four-corner 5911₂, composition ⿰虫卷)

1. creep like a worm, curl one's body

References

• KangXi: page 1087, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33199
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8737

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
腃	*kʰruls, *ɡron
卷	*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤	*kronʔ
捲	*kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢	*kronʔ
睠	*krons
弮	*kʰron, *krons
犈	*krons, *ɡron
棬	*kʰron
鬈	*kʰron, *ɡron
圈	*kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷	*ɡron
踡	*ɡron
婘	*ɡron
蔨	*ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦	*ɡrons
淃	*ɡrons
綣	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷	*kʰonʔ, *qon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡron) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): khûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²
    • Yale: chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • Palladius: цюань (cjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyun⁴
    • Yale: kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khûn
    • Tâi-lô: khûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: quun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡˠiuᴇn/

Rime
Character	蜷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨員切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwian/
Li Rong	/ɡjuɛn/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡron/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜷
Reading #	1/1
No.	7191
Phonetic component	卷
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	權
Old Chinese	/*ɡron/
Notes	見離騷

Definitions

蜷

1. (of the body) to curl; to coil; to huddle; to wriggle

Compounds

蜷伏 蜷局 (quánjú) 蜷屈

蜷曲 (quánqū) 蜷蜿

蜷縮／蜷缩 (quánsuō) 連蜷／连蜷

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Japanese

Kanji

海蜷 uminina: horn snails (Batillaria multiformis)

蜷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: にな (nina, 蜷)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蜷
にな Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi₁na), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mena.

Cognates

From Proto-Ryukyuan *tamena, ultimately from a compound of 田 (ta, “paddy field”) + 蜷 (mina):

• Kunigami 田蜷 (tannā)

• Toku-No-Shima 田蜷 (tannya, tanmya, tammya, tamina)

• Okinawan 田蜷 (tānna)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *mena:

• Kikai 蜷 (minya, miya)

• Kunigami 蜷 (minā)

• Yaeyama 蜷 (nna)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) にな​ [nìnáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ina̠]

Noun

蜷(にな) • (nina) 

1. a melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina), an edible freshwater snail

Synonyms

• ニナ貝(がい) (ninagai)
• カワニナ (kawanina)

References

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

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Korean

Hanja

蜷 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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